Recommendation vs. Suggestion

Recommendationnoun

An act of recommending.

Recommendationnoun

That which is recommended.

Recommendationnoun

A commendation or endorsement.

Recommendationnoun

The act of recommending.

Recommendationnoun

That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

Recommendationnoun

The state of being recommended; esteem.

Recommendationnoun

something (as a course of action) that is recommeended as advisable

Recommendationnoun

something that recommends (or expresses commendation) of a person or thing as worthy or desirable

Recommendationnoun

any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission;

Suggestionnoun

(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

Suggestionnoun

(uncountable) The act of suggesting.

Suggestionnoun

Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

Suggestionnoun

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.

Suggestionnoun

information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

Suggestionnoun

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Suggestionnoun

That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

Suggestionnoun

Charge; complaint; accusation.

Suggestionnoun

Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

Suggestionnoun

The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; - a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

Suggestionnoun

The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

Suggestionnoun

an idea that is suggested;

Suggestionnoun

a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection;

Suggestionnoun

a just detectable amount;

Suggestionnoun

persuasion formulated as a suggestion

Suggestionnoun

the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

Suggestionnoun

the act of inducing hypnosis

Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person. Nineteenth-century writers on psychology such as William James used the words and in the context of a particular idea which was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind.