no conception of
idiom
: no understanding or awareness of
He has no conception of the problems we have to face.
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Physicists had no conception of a black hole in 1915.
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John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
The performance is for all audiences, including city kids who have no conception of a rodeo and children in 4-H who are more likely to have attended rodeos, Grant said.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
At the moment, there is no conception of replacing a human in demining operations, and people that try to push that eventuality are usually disregarded pretty quickly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
Well, David, the remarkable thing is that most of them don’t even know about 9/11, and many of them have no conception of it or the foggiest notion of it.
—David Remnic, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
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John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
The performance is for all audiences, including city kids who have no conception of a rodeo and children in 4-H who are more likely to have attended rodeos, Grant said.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
At the moment, there is no conception of replacing a human in demining operations, and people that try to push that eventuality are usually disregarded pretty quickly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
Well, David, the remarkable thing is that most of them don’t even know about 9/11, and many of them have no conception of it or the foggiest notion of it.
—David Remnic, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
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“No conception of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20conception%20of. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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