How to say "suspense" in Japanese

• サスペンスCommon
  nounCovers suspense as a quality or genre of films, novels and similar works — the tension of not knowing what happens next; the word to use for a movie or book that keeps audiences in suspense.
  「ペット・セミタリー」は真しんに迫せまったサスペンス映画えいがだった。↗

  "Pet Sematary" was a real cliff-hanger.
• 不安ふあんJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, na-adjectiveCovers the feeling of being in suspense — anxious uncertainty about how something will turn out. It is really the word for anxiety or unease, describing a person's state of mind, not a film or novel.
  その知しらせで彼かれの不安ふあんが増ました。↗

  The news added to his anxiety.

Use 「サスペンス」 for suspense as a quality or genre of films, novels and the like; use 不安 for the feeling of suspense itself — a person's anxious unease about how something will turn out.

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• サスペンスsuspense (esp. in a film, novel, etc.)
• 不安ふあんanxiety
• 不安心ふあんしんuneasiness