suggestion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of suggesting.
2. n. Something suggested: We ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter.
3. n. The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.
4. n. A psychological process by which an idea is induced in or adopted by another without argument, command, or coercion.
5. n. An idea or response so induced.
6. n. A hint or trace: just a suggestion of makeup; the first suggestion of trouble ahead.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of placing before the mind problematically; also, the idea so produced; the insinuation of an idea by indirect association; hint; intimation; prompting; also, especially, an incitement to an animal, brutal, or diabolical act.
2. n. The action of an idea in bringing another idea to mind, either through the force of association or by virtue of the natural connection of the ideas.
3. n. Specifically, in hypnotism, the insinuation of a belief or impulse into the mind of the subject by any means, as by words or gestures, usually by emphatic declaration; also, the impulse of trust and submission which leads to the effectiveness of such incitement; also, the idea so suggested. Verbal suggestion is the usual method. Another is known as suggestion by attitude, as when, for instance, a person placed in the attitude of prayer is caused to pray.
4. n. Indirect or hidden action.
5. n. In law, information without oath. An information drawn in writing, showing cause to have a prohibition.
6. n. Synonyms Intimation, Insinuation, etc. See hint, transitive verb

Wiktionary

1. n. countable Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
2. n. uncountable The act of suggesting.
3. n. countable, psychology Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
2. n. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.
3. n. obsolete Charge; complaint; accusation.
4. n. (Law) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.
5. n. (Physiol. & Metaph.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.
6. n. (Hypnotism) The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
2. n. persuasion formulated as a suggestion
3. n. an idea that is suggested
4. n. the act of inducing hypnosis
5. n. a just detectable amount
6. n. a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection