The difference between Proposition and Suggestion
When used as nouns, proposition means the act of offering (an idea) for consideration, whereas suggestion means something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
Proposition is also verb with the meaning: to make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
check bellow for the other definitions of Proposition and Suggestion
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Proposition as a noun (uncountable):
The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
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Proposition as a noun (countable):
An idea or a plan offered.
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Proposition as a noun (countable, business settings):
The terms of a transaction offered.
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Proposition as a noun (countable, US, politics):
In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
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Proposition as a noun (grammar):
A complete sentence.
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Proposition as a noun (countable, logic):
The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.
Examples:
"“'Wiktionary is a good dictionary' is a proposition” is a proposition."
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Proposition as a noun (countable, mathematics):
An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
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Proposition as a noun (countable, mathematics):
An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
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Proposition as a noun:
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
Examples:
"the propositions of Wyclif and Huss"
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Proposition as a noun (poetry):
The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
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Proposition as a verb (transitive, informal):
To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
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Proposition as a verb (transitive, informal):
To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
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Suggestion as a noun (countable):
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
Examples:
"I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit."
"Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order."
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Suggestion as a noun (uncountable):
The act of suggesting.
Examples:
"Suggestion often works better than explicit demand."
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Suggestion as a noun (countable, psychology):
Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
Examples:
"He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts."
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Suggestion as a noun:
The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
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Suggestion as a noun:
information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence