suggestion.
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
Meaning & usage
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
make a suggestion
I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
The act of suggesting.
Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.
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