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say it: suh-SPENS
suspense is a noun meaning "apprehension about what is going to happen". It carries 3 recorded senses.
apprehension about what is going to happen
excited anticipation of an approaching climax
“the play kept the audience in suspense”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suspense come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.