Suspicion

sus·pi·cion

Etymology: Middle English suspecioun, from
Anglo-French, from Latin suspicion-, suspicio, from suspicere
to suspect

1 a: the act or an instance of suspecting something
wrong without proof or on slight evidence : mistrust b: a state of mental uneasiness and
uncertainty : doubt2: a barely
detectable amount : trace

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Suspicion of wrong-doing is something only humans do. To speculate that someone else might be doing something wrong with absolutely no evidence is something you'll never see in the animal world. If it does happen, I would love to see it.

We're suspicious of everything and everyone all the time. So much so that we have to write bots and cute little automata that handle our suspicions for us, because we don't have the time to do it ourselves. We're too busy wondering what our neighbor is building in his basement or why the guy in the next cube is so damn quiet all the time.

suspicion. (2008). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suspicion