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notion

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of notion

1 notions plural small useful items
  • The fabric store had a wide variety of thread, pins, buttons, and other notions.
Synonyms of notion

novelties, odds and ends, sundries
Words Related to notion

baubles, bric-a-brac, gewgaws (also geegaws), knickknacks (also nicknacks), trinkets

gadgets, gimmicks, jiggers
2 a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
  • I have a notion to go swimming this afternoon.
Synonyms of notion

bee, caprice, crank, fancy, freak, humor, kink, megrims, vagary, vagrancy, whim, whimsy (also whimsey)
Words Related to notion

capriciousness, fancifulness, fantasy (also phantasy), freakishness, impetuosity, whimsicality

conceit

concept, conception, image, impression, mind's eye, picture, thought

brainstorm, inspiration
Phrases Synonymous with notion

bee in one's bonnet
3 an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge
  • Anne has a notion that most people are basically honest.
Synonyms of notion

belief, conviction, eye, feeling, judgment (or judgement), mind, opinion, persuasion, sentiment, verdict, view
Words Related to notion

say

impression, perception, take

attitude

assumption, presumption, presupposition

conclusion, decision, determination

deliverance, estimate, estimation

credence, credit, faith

concept, conception, idea, thought

position, stance, stand

comment, observation, reflection, remark

conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, surmise, theory

advice, input, recommendation, suggestion

angle, outlook, perspective, shoes, slant, standpoint, viewpoint

counterview
Near Antonyms of notion

fact, truth
4 something imagined or pictured in the mind
  • That modernistic building does not match my notion of what a country cottage should look like.
Synonyms of notion

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

apprehension, premonition, presentiment

preconception, prejudice, prepossession

delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm)

caprice, conceit, fancy, 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 notion

actuality, fact, reality
5 an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation
  • The study disputes the notion that animals don't have emotions.
Synonyms of notion

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

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

adage, proverb, saw, saying

oversimplification, simplification

Synonym Discussion of notion

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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