What is "suspiciousness"

Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.]

1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

   Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects.
   --South.

   Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other.
   --Pope.

2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

   We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance.
   --Swift.

3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

   I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
   --Shak.

   Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous. [1913 Webster] -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n.

n. The state or quality of being suspicious.

n. being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" [syn: suspicion]