Synonyms for conception
kənˈsɛp ʃəncon·cep·tion

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1. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

2. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

3. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

4. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

5. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

6. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

7. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

8. conceptionnoun

   Antonyms:
   misconception

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1. conception

   An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Synonyms:
   belief, caprice, conceit, desire, fancy, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Preposition:
   To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

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1. Conceptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   Idea, notion, perception, apprehemsion, comprehension.

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1. concept, conception, constructnoun

   an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

   Synonyms:
   construct, excogitation, innovation, concept, creation, design, invention

   Antonyms:
   misconception

2. conceptionnoun

   the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

   Synonyms:
   construct, design, invention, innovation, excogitation, creation, concept

   Antonyms:
   misconception

3. creation, conceptionnoun

   the event that occurred at the beginning of something

   "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure"

   Synonyms:
   foundation, world, instauration, design, construct, invention, creative activity, cosmos, creation, concept, excogitation, universe, macrocosm, institution, founding, innovation, initiation, origination, introduction, existence

   Antonyms:
   misconception

4. invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, designnoun

   the creation of something in the mind

   Synonyms:
   intention, foundation, initiation, instauration, design, introduction, construct, designing, figure, creation, plan, excogitation, aim, intent, blueprint, institution, founding, innovation, pattern, invention, origination, concept, purpose

   Antonyms:
   misconception

Matched Categories

1. • Beginning
   • Creativity
   • Sexual Activity

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1. conceptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   conceiving

2. conceptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, IMAGINATION, the mind's eye

3. conceptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   notion, idea, thought, fancy, conceit, impression

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1. conceptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   ideation, imagination, idea, concept, notion, impression

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1. List of paraphrases for "conception":

   design, concepción, concept, kwun, idea, designing, notion, vision, pregnancy

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How to use conception in a sentence?

1. John J. Ferguson:

   I suppose that the nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer the dynamic relation out of which this concept arose, inevitably draws to a close. So it may be surmised, on one hand, to know is to lose. It may be argued, then, tis better to be ignorant, and blissful!

2. Vern Unsworthtold:

   It just had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine I believe was about 5 feet, 6 inches long, rigid, so it would n’t have gone round corners or round any obstacles, it would n’t have made the first 50 meters into the cave from the dive start point. It was just a PR stunt.

3. Perrin Larton:

   There are -- I can see hearts that arein -- not in an intact POC [product of conception]that are beatingindependently, but they're not attached to anything.

4. Beau Biden:

   You wonder why people in the intelligence community wondered from the very beginning whether you could share data with him,'cause they don't trust him. They don't trust what he'll say or do, he seems to have no conception of what constitutes national security, no conception of anything other than, what can he do to promote himself ?

5. Felix Adler:

   The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.