suggestion
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
Noun 4 meanings
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
“make a suggestion”
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.
Etymology
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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SUGGESTION at a glance
SUGGESTION has 10 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (S 1 + U 1 + G 2 + G 2 + E 1 + S 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,812 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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