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Synonyms for suspense

Grammar : Noun
Spell : suh-spens
Phonetic Transcription : səˈspɛns

Top 10 synonyms for suspense
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Définition of suspense

Origin :
  • c.1400, "not being executed, unfulfilled" (of legal matters), from Anglo-French suspens (in en suspens "in abeyance," c.1300), from Old French suspens "act of suspending," from Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere (see suspend). Meaning "state of mental uncertainty" (mid-15c.) is from legal meaning of "not rendered, not paid, not carried out" (e.g. suspended sentence). As a genre of novels, stories, etc., attested from 1952.
  • noun anticipation
Example sentences :
  • He awaited, in an agony of suspense, the rattle of the musketry.
  • Extract from : « The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Don't keep me in suspense like this," cried the girl in a low but intense voice.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Now that everything had been done, that the last minute of suspense was on, she was depressed.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • "It is a long time when it is a year of suspense," said the recluse, shaking his head.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • In either way, the certainty must be preferable to the suspense.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • It was a moment of suspense, for neither liked the other at first sight.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • Anthony was in suspense about the way his fate might arrange itself at Khartum.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • The waiting, the loneliness and the suspense were terrible to one so young, and so ambitious.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • They would certainly be listening with an anxiety and suspense not less than his.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • We all hastened down accordingly, and waited the issue in suspense.
  • Extract from : « Georgie's Present » by Miss Brightwell

Antonyms for suspense

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