suggestion

Meanings

• an idea that is suggested
  • "the picnic was her suggestion"
• a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
  • "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"
• a just detectable amount
• persuasion formulated as a suggestion
• the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
• the act of inducing hypnosis

Synonyms

hint, hypnotism, mesmerism, proffer, prompting, proposition, trace