suggestion

Plural: suggestions

Noun

• an idea that is suggested
  • "the picnic was her suggestion"
• a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
  • "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"
• a just detectable amount
• persuasion formulated as a suggestion
• the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
• the act of inducing hypnosis
• Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
• The act of suggesting.
• Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
• The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
• Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

Examples

• He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
• I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
• make a suggestion
• Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
• Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

Synonyms

hint, hypnotism, mesmerism, proffer, prompting, proposition, trace, incitement, proposal

Related Words

suggest, suggestive