Definition of Suspension

Suspension

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation

Of labor, study, pain, etc.

Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.

Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.

Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.

Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.

Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.

A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.

The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.

A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

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Suspension Quotations

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
David McCullough

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
George Steinbrenner

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
Curt Weldon

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Gillian Anderson

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
Edward Norton

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
Earl Blumenauer

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
Edward Norton

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
Dave Winer

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
Ed Wood

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri