suspenseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• suspence (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.

発音

• IPA: /səˈspɛns/
• 韻: -ɛns

名詞

suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)

1. The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, lines 249–252; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 113:

     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.

2. the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
3. The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
   • 1636 (date written), John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy, an Essay upon the Second Book of Virgils Æneis”, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: […] [John Macock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC:

     Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 265–266:

     I believe that, to the young, suspense is the most intolerable suffering. Active misery always brings with it its own power of endurance.

4. (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.
5. (US, military) A deadline.

   She sent us that assignment with a suspense of noon tomorrow.

派生語

• in suspense
• suspense account
• suspenseful

派生した語

• → French: suspense
• → Korean: 서스펜스 (seoseupenseu)
• → Polish: suspens

形容詞

suspense (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     [The great light of day] suspens in heav'n.

2. (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Expectation held his look suspense.

参照

• “suspense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• suspense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.