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Suspicion

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.

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Antagonism 76% connected

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

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Belief 76% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Distrust 76% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

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Doubt 76% connected

To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the…

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Doubtfulness 76% connected

State of being doubtful.

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Dubiety 76% connected

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

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Dubiousness 76% connected

State of being dubious.

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Enmity 76% connected

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Hostility 76% connected

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Incertitude 76% connected

Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.

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Mistrust 76% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

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Notion 76% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Uncertainty 76% connected

The quality or state of being uncertain.

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Narrower term 3

Bosom 76% connected

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

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Cloud 76% connected

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Heart 76% connected

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

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Surmise 74% connected

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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Surmise 74% connected

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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Suspect 74% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspect 74% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspicious 74% connected

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

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Suspicious 74% connected

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

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Distrust 92% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

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Hunch 92% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Intuition 92% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Misgiving 92% connected

of Misgive

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Mistrust 92% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

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