conceptions

NOUN

understanding; idea

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appreciation conceit concept impression interpretation notion perception realization

STRONG

apperception apprehension clue cognition comprehension consideration design dreaming explanation exposition fancy image inkling intellection meditation musing philosophizing picture plan representation speculation thought version

WEAK

cogitating communing concentrating considering deliberating envisaging fancying imagining meditating mental grasp speculating

Antonyms

STRONG

concrete fact ignorance misunderstanding reality truth

WEAK

abortion being death

NOUN

beginning, birth

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fertilization origin

STRONG

formation germination impregnation inception initiation insemination invention launching outset start

Antonyms

STRONG

conclusion end ending finish

WEAK

abortion being concrete death

Example Sentences

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Conceptions of individual rights that have guided modern civilization are rooted in an idea with biblical origins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Conceptions of work and the economy can be reformed, too.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

Conceptions of beauty, of principle — such abstract formulations could be cast aside as easily as it has disposed of the child’s progenitors.

From Nature • Apr. 9, 2019

The 18 Yale students who crowded into a seminar room one September morning in 1999 for a course entitled “New Conceptions of American National Identity” didn’t know what they were in for.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2019

Different Conceptions May be Individually Correct Can one and the same phrase be conceived differently by different artists and still be individually correct in each instance?

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef