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1 notions plural
small useful items
- the fabric store had a wide variety of thread, pins, buttons, and other notions
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- baubles,
- bric-a-brac,
- gewgaws
- (also geegaws),
- knickknacks
- (also nicknacks),
- trinkets
2
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
- I have a notion to go in-line skating this afternoon
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3
an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge
- has this naive notion that most people are basically honest
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4
something imagined or pictured in the mind
- that modernistic building does not match my notion of what a country cottage should look like
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5
an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation
- the popular notion that college athletes are airheads
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The first known use of notion was in 1531
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