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conception

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of conception

1 an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation
  • the false conception that wheelchair users are homebound and helpless
Synonyms of conception

concept, generality, generalization, notion, stereotype
Words Related to conception

bromide, cliché (also cliche), commonplace, platitude, truism

adage, proverb, saw, saying

hypothesis, proposition, theory

oversimplification, simplification, simplism
2 something imagined or pictured in the mind
  • our changing conceptions of what constitutes art
Synonyms of conception

abstraction, cogitation, concept, idea, image, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought
Words Related to conception

apprehension, premonition, presentiment

preconception, prejudice, prepossession

chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm)

caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim

cognition, observation, perception, reflection

assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction

conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory

brainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration
Near Antonyms of conception

actuality, fact, reality

Synonym Discussion of conception

idea, concept, conception, thought, notion, impression mean what exists in the mind as a representation (as of something comprehended) or as a formulation (as of a plan). idea may apply to a mental image or formulation of something seen or known or imagined, to a pure abstraction, or to something assumed or vaguely sensed.
    • innovative ideas
    • my idea of paradise
concept may apply to the idea formed by consideration of instances of a species or genus or, more broadly, to any idea of what a thing ought to be.
    • a society with no concept of private property
conception is often interchangeable with concept; it may stress the process of imagining or formulating rather than the result.
    • our changing conception of what constitutes art
thought is likely to suggest the result of reflecting, reasoning, or meditating rather than of imagining.
    • commit your thoughts to paper
notion suggests an idea not much resolved by analysis or reflection and may suggest the capricious or accidental.
    • you have the oddest notions
impression applies to an idea or notion resulting immediately from some stimulation of the senses.
    • the first impression is of soaring height

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