SUSPICIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suspiciousness mean? 

• SUSPICIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun SUSPICIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. being of a suspicious nature

  Familiarity information: SUSPICIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSPICIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being of a suspicious nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

suspicion; suspiciousness

Context example:

his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage

Hypernyms ("suspiciousness" is a kind of...):

distrust; distrustfulness; mistrust (the trait of not trusting others)

Derivation:

suspicious (not as expected)

suspicious (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)

 Context examples 

I'm not asking about mere suspiciousness; I am interested if the patient is convinced that these things are happening to him/her.

(NPI - Have Beliefs That You Know are Not True, NCI Thesaurus)