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suspense - 10 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, insecurity, tension, uncertainty, wavering, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, grabber, indecisiveness, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, thriller |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
| Synonyms: | angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer*, drag*, dread, flap*, foreboding, fuss, goose bumps*, jitters, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, uneasiness, watchfulness, all-overs, ants in pants, botheration, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, fidgets, fretfulness, heebie-jeebies, jumps, nail-biting, needles, shakes, shivers, unease, willies, worriment |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, faithlessness, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering, agnosticism, demurral, dubiousness, faltering, irresolution, lack of confidence, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, reliance, trust, dependence |
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | impatience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability, unwillingness to wait |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anger, annoyance, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, expectancy, haste, heat*, intolerance, irritability, nervousness, rashness, restlessness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence, ants in pants, edginess, fretfulness, hastiness, impetuosity, irritableness, quick temper, restiveness, shortness, snappiness |
| Antonyms: | control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, willingness, waiting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, breather, cessation, doldrums, downtime*, interim, interlude, interruption, interval, layoff, lull, pause, quiescence, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait, abeyancy, break-off, breathing spell, dormancy, interregnum, latency, let-up, parenthesis, quiescency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suspension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delay |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, adjournment, break, breather*, cessation, coffee break, conclusion, deferment, doldrums, downtime*, end, ending, finish, five*, freeze, halt, intermission, interruption, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten*, termination, time-out, abeyancy, breathing spell, concluding, cutoff, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, dormancy, heave-ho, latency, quiescency |
| Antonyms: | completion, continuation, finish, persistence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story line |
| Synonyms: | action, design, development, enactment, movement, narrative, outline, picture, progress, scenario, scene, scheme, story, structure, subject, suspense, theme, thread, events, incidents, unfolding |
| Main Entry: | tension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental stress |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, apprehension, brunt, concern, discomfort, disquiet, hostility, jitters*, nerves, nervousness, pins and needles, pressure, restlessness, strain, suspense, uneasiness, worry, ants in pants, antsiness, bad feeling, edginess, jumps, nail-biting, shakes, unease, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, ease, peace, relaxation, contentedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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