SUSPICIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Being of a suspicious nature

Example:

his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage

Synonyms:

suspicion; suspiciousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)