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synonyms for conception
- appreciation
- conceit
- concept
- impression
- interpretation
- notion
- perception
- realization
- apperception
- apprehension
- clue
- cognition
- comprehension
- consideration
- design
- dreaming
- explanation
- exposition
- fancy
- image
- inkling
- intellection
- meditation
- musing
- philosophizing
- picture
- plan
- representation
- speculation
- thought
- version
- cogitating
- communing
- concentrating
- considering
- deliberating
- envisaging
- fancying
- imagining
- meditating
- mental grasp
- speculating
See also synonyms for: conceptions / conceptive
- fertilization
- origin
- formation
- germination
- impregnation
- inception
- initiation
- insemination
- invention
- launching
- outset
- start
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The noun conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect’s conception delighted them. Thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me.
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Campaigns have also been forced to reconsider their conception of Pennsylvania’s political geography.
WHY PENNSYLVANIA COULD DECIDE THE 2020 ELECTIONNATHANIEL RAKICH (NATHANIEL.RAKICH@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)SEPTEMBER 15, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTCompare our conception of werewolves, vampires, and zombies.
BELIEVING IN MONSTERS: DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH ON THE SUBHUMAN - FACTS SO ROMANTICERIC SCHWITZGEBELSEPTEMBER 11, 2020NAUTILUSTwo Conceptions of RealityThese challenges are rooted in a conception of reality which we have gotten so used to that we’re not even aware that there’s an alternative.
THE UNIVERSE KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEPHILIP GOFFSEPTEMBER 9, 2020NAUTILUSThere’s another conception of reality which I call the “container view.”
THE UNIVERSE KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEPHILIP GOFFSEPTEMBER 9, 2020NAUTILUSAnother incredible conception from da Vinci, the Armored Car is surely the forerunner to the contemporary military tanks.
14 EXCEPTIONAL WEAPON SYSTEMS FROM HISTORY THAT WERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIMEDATTATREYA MANDALMARCH 26, 2020REALM OF HISTORYAdequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThe conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPSThe myth of "Boreas and Orithyia," though faulty perhaps in technique, is good in conception and arrangement.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTFrom that hour dated a new and sterner conception of the task that lay before him and every other Briton in the country.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYIn fact, he says, with great candour and courage, that the early Bible conception of God is one which we cannot now accept.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWORDS RELATED TO CONCEPTION
- architecture
- arrangement
- assembly
- build
- cast
- composition
- conception
- constitution
- contour
- cut
- development
- disposition
- edifice
- elevation
- erecting
- erection
- fabric
- fabricating
- fabrication
- figuration
- figure
- form
- format
- formation
- foundation
- improvisation
- invention
- makeup
- making
- manufacture
- mold
- origination
- outline
- plan
- planning
- prefab
- prefabrication
- putting up
- raising
- rearing
- roadwork
- shape
- structure
- system
- systematization
- turn
- type
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