Definition of notion
- They had different notions of right and wrong.
- arriving at the notion of law
- —Irving Babbitt
- the notion of original sin
- He had a notion to try skydiving.
- found the thread she wanted among the shop's notions
He has some pretty strange notions.
She had a vague notion about what happened.
The study disproves any notion that dolphins are not intelligent.
She had a notion to try skydiving.
a sewing shop that sells fabrics, books, tools, and notions
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belief, conviction, eye, feeling, judgment (or judgement), mind, opinion, persuasion, sentiment, verdict, view;
say;
assumption, presumption, presupposition;
conclusion, decision, determination;
deliverance, estimate, estimation;
concept, conception, idea, thought;
comment, observation, reflection, remark;
conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, surmise, theory;
advice, input, recommendation, suggestion;
angle, outlook, perspective, shoes, slant, standpoint, viewpoint;
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