<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of suggesting.</li><li>the state of being suggested.</li><li>something suggested, as a piece of advice: We made the suggestion that she resign.</li><li>a slight trace: He speaks with a suggestion of a foreign accent.</li><li>the calling up in the mind of one idea by another by virtue of some association or of some natural connection between the ideas.</li><li>the idea thus called up.</li><li>Psychology: the process of inducing a thought, sensation, or action in a receptive person without using persuasion and without giving rise to reflection in the recipient.</li><li>the thought, sensation, or action induced in this way.</li></ul>