suggestion

noun5

1. •
   an idea that someone offers to help others decide what to do or choose

   • 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.
2. •
   The act of suggesting.

   • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
3. •
   Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   • He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
4. •
   Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
5. •
   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.