OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27659

suspense

/səˈspɛns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
suspensión
The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
For thee the Fates, severely kind, ordain / A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain; / Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; / No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows…
suspense • suspenso
the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
angustia • suspense
The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
I believe that, to the young, suspense is the most intolerable suffering. Active misery always brings with it its own power of endurance.
Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.
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