Usually means: Uncertainty causing excitement or anxiety.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word suspense:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspense: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suspense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suspense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suspense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suspense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suspense, suspense: Wordnik
  7. suspense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. suspense: Wiktionary
  9. suspense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suspense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suspense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suspense: Dictionary.com
  13. suspense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. suspense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suspense (American TV series), Suspense (British TV series), Suspense (U.S. TV series), Suspense (US TV series), Suspense (album), Suspense (disambiguation), Suspense (genre), Suspense (radio drama), Suspense (radio program), Suspense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suspense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suspense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suspense: Rhymezone
  19. suspense, suspense, suspense, suspense (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suspense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suspense: Free Dictionary
  22. suspense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suspense: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Suspense (narratology), suspense: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspense: Idioms

(Note: See suspenseful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
noun:  the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
noun:  The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
noun:  (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
noun:  (US, military) A deadline.
adjective:  (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
adjective:  (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

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