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noun The act of suggesting.
noun Something suggested: We ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter.
noun The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.

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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. For all the rest, They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. Shak., Tempest, ii. l. 288. He knew that by his preaching evident and certain good was done; but that there was any evil in his way of doing it, or likely to arise from it, was a thought which, if it had arisen in his own mind, he would immediately have ascribed to the suggestion of Satan. Southey, Bunyan, p. 48.
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. The other part of the invention, which I term suggestion, doth assign and direct us to certain markes or places which may excite our mind to return and produce such knowledge as it hath formerly collected, to the end we may make use thereof. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. Let it not be supposed that the terms suggest and suggestion are, in their psychological relation, of recent, or even modern, application; for, so applied, they are old—the oldest we possess. In this relative signification, suggero, the verb, ascends to Cicero; and suggestio, the noun, is a household expression of Tertullian and St. Augustine. Among the earlier modern philosophers, and in this precise application, they were, of course, familiar words—as is shewn, among five hundred others, by the writings of Hermolaus Barbaras, the elder Scaliger, Melanchthon, Simonius, Campanella, to say nothing of the Schoolmen, etc. They were no strangers to Hobbes and Locke; and so far is Berkeley from having first employed them in this relation, as Mr. Stewart seems to suppose, Berkeley only did not continue what he found established and in common use. Hamilton, Read's Works, note D**. [But the above is somewhat exaggerated. Suggestion was hardly in common use in this sense before Berkeley.] It is by suggestion, not cumulation, that profound impressions are made upon the imagination. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 185.
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. Suggestion appears to be entirely a phenomenon of unconscious memory. Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 514.

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Your suggestion is an excellent solution for most scenarios. — ASP.NET Forums
The Giddy Tigress says: Your suggestion is a good one. — Giddy Tigers
Either way, the suggestion is actually worth exploring in some format. — Techdirt
Once the suggestion is accepted and agreed on by the person that hears the hidden suggestions, usually called subliminal affirmations, then it becomes a ... — Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
Your suggestion is the UCI's suggested riders pledge. — PezCyclingNews.com

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from French suggestion = Spanish sugestion = Portuguese suggestão = Italian suggestione, from Latin suggestio(n-), an addition, an intimation, from suggerere, past participle suggestus, supply, suggest: see suggest.

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