suggestion
noun
- psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person
- something suggested
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/ / [səˈd͡ʒɛʃ.t͡ʃən] / /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/
noun
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.
- 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.