Suspense is a state of excitement or anxiety about something that is going to happen very soon, for example about some news that you are waiting to hear. The suspense over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies
an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years"
A way of holding funding for a budgeted position because an employee has temporarily reduced his/her percentage of time, or been given a temporary promotion, or the department is temporarily paying an employee on a different FAU
{i} state of being suspended; excitement or anticipation resulting from uncertainty; apprehension, anxiety; uncertain condition; state of being undecided or uncertain
If you keep or leave someone in suspense, you deliberately delay telling them something that they are very eager to know about. Keppler kept all his men in suspense until that morning before announcing which two would be going. a feeling of excitement or anxiety when you do not know what will happen next tension in suspense (suspendre; SUSPEND)
an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years" excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense" apprehension about what is going to happen
excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense"