Suspense is a feeling of excited waiting. If you have been waiting for weeks to get an answer to your proposal of marriage, you are being kept in suspense.
Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
Noun
an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years"
Noun
excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense"
Noun
apprehension about what is going to happen
a.
Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
a.
Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
a.
The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of
uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension;
indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for
the verdict of a jury.
a.
Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
a.
A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when
the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land
and rent.
Suspense
[The great light of day] suspense in heaven.2.
Suspense
Ten days the prophet in suspense remained.
Upon the ticklish balance of suspense.2.
A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain.3.
Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision;
Usage Examples
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
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Other Usage ExamplesThis suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
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