Suspense

Noun

 * 1) the condition of being suspended
 * 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

Adjectives for Suspense
absorbed; waiting; agonizing; irresolute; tremulous; sultry; lowering; painful; frighted; unrelaxed; dramatic; clever; intolerable; agitated; prolonged; awful; tedious; awakening.

Verbs for Suspense
allay—; alleviate—; bear—; cower in—; ease—; face—; flinch at—; heighten—; in¬tensify—; lessen—; maintain—; mitigate—; moderate—; palliate—; preserve—; relinquish—; survive—; sustain—; swoon in—; withdraw—; —abates; —agonizes: —embarasses; —relaxes; —rends; —shakers; — strains; —subsides; —taxes; —tenses; — wanes; —weighs upon.

Thesaurus
nervousness, overanxiety, passiveness, passivity, pendency, pendulosity, pendulousness, pensileness, pensility, perturbation, pessimism, pins and needles, pucker, randomness, solicitude, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, stew, strain, suspensefulness, suspension, tension, torpor, trouble, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, uneasiness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unquietness, unsureness, unverifiability, upset, vacillation, vegetation, vexation, vis inertiae, waiting, whimsicality, zeal, abeyance, agitation, all-overs, angst, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apathy, apprehension, apprehensiveness, cankerworm of care, capriciousness, care, catalepsy, catatonia, chance, chanciness, changeableness, cliff-hanging, concern, concernment, danglement, dangling, deadliness, deathliness, dependence, dependency, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dormancy, doubt, dread, entropy, erraticism, erraticness, excitement, expectancy, expectant waiting, expectation, fear, fickleness, foreboding, forebodingness, hanging, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, inquietude, insecurity, irresolution, languor, latency, lotus-eating, luck, malaise, misgiving, moratorium, nervous strain, nervous tension,

Derived terms

 * suspenseful

Related terms

 * cliffhanger
 * tenterhook