CONCEPTIONS Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

conceptions

noun

plural of conception

as in notions

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

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as in ideas

something imagined or pictured in the mind our changing conceptions of what constitutes art

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Recent Examples of conceptions Users could compare the two and get a window into their own conceptions of the game. —

Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2026 The conservatism that would eventually hobble the daytime soap had its roots in this era, when soap viewers with especially fragile sensibilities had specific conceptions of what topics a soap should cover and made no bones about airing their protests. —

Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 Some say the country is a secular republic founded on 18th-century conceptions of human reason and natural law. —

Thomas Tweed, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026 In reaction against the waste of life and ill-success of Mazzini’s program, moderate opinion tended to crystallize around federal conceptions of the solution of the Italian problem. —

Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026 Second, however, at the chasm between the Framers’ conceptions of Presidential war power and the unbounded nature of that authority today. —

Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026 Rising above material needs, our current conceptions of class, identity, and climate will shift radically. —

Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Farrell and Kidman are outstanding, even as Lanthimos' ritualistic plotting and direction keep them hemmed into their characters' rigid conceptions. —

Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025 The hierarchy of money is present in both conceptions, it is not spelled out explicitly in either conception. —

Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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This was a Jean Paul Gualitier wrap that challenged traditional notions of how a top male soccer player should appear, sending the British tabloids into a hysterical spin.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
Ancient notions, dating back to Ptolemy, claimed that Africa was surrounded by boiling seas filled with giant creatures, whirlpools, and perpetual darkness.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 June 2026