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concept - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | concept |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, apprehension, approach, conceit, conception, consideration, hypothesis, image, impression, notion, perception, slant, supposition, theory, thought, twist, view, wrinkle, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, conceptualization, fool notion, intellection |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | doctrine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion; principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint, believed abstraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, attention, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, concept, consciousness, grasp, idea, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, picture, realizing, recognition, sense, sight, understanding, vision, apprehending |
| Main Entry: | motif |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | central theme |
| Synonyms: | concept, design, idea, logo, notion, pattern, structure, subject |
| Main Entry: | perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding, idea |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint, apprehending, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, intellection |
| Main Entry: | theory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypothesis, belief |
| Synonyms: | approach, argument, assumption, base, basis, code, concept, conditions, conjecture, doctrine, dogma, feeling, foundation, grounds, guess, hunch, idea, ideology, impression, method, outlook, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presentiment, presumption, proposal, provision, rationale, scheme, shot*, speculation, stab*, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspicion, system, theorem, thesis, understanding, codification, formularization, guesswork, supposal, systemization |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, proof, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | appreciation, apprehension, clue, cognition, comprehension, conceit, concept, consideration, considering, design, dreaming, explanation, exposition, fancy, image, impression, inkling, interpretation, meditation, musing, notion, perception, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculation, thought, version, apperception, cogitating, communing, concentrating, deliberating, envisaging, fancying, imagining, intellection, meditating, mental grasp, philosophizing, speculating |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, idea |
| Synonyms: | angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness, clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, consideration, cue, discernment, flash, hint, image, imagination, impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intimation, intuition, judgment, knowledge, opinion, penetration, perception, sentiment, slant, spark, suggestion, telltale, thought, twist, understanding, view, wind, wrinkle, intellection |
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, source |
| Synonyms: | berry, bud, cell, conceit, concept, conception, core, ear, egg, embryo, germ, grain, image, impression, inkling, kernel, notion, nucleus, nut, ovum, particle, spark, start, suspicion, corn, ovule, rudiment, semen, sperm, spore |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, ending, result |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word, corporeality, existent, materiality |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something regarded as true |
| Synonyms: | assumption, concept, credence, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, fundamental, gospel, gospel truth*, hypothesis, idea, ideology, law, opinion, postulate, precept, principle, tenet, theorem, theory, say-so |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, nonbelief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, belief, conceit, concept, conception, conjecture, conviction, fancy, feel, hunch, image, inkling, memory, notion, opinion, perception, recollection, sensation, sense, supposition, suspicion, theory, thought, view, intellection |
| Antonyms: | materiality, physicality |
| Main Entry: | memory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specific thing remembered |
| Synonyms: | concept, cue, fantasy, hint, image, jog, memoir, picture, prod, prompt, reminder, representation, suggestion, thought, vision, memo, mnemonic |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of attack, resolution |
| Synonyms: | attitude, concept, course, crack, fling, go*, idea, lick, manner, means, method, mode, modus operandi, offer, procedure, program, shot, stab, style, technique, way, whack*, wrinkle*, new wrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | invention, concoction |
| Synonyms: | achievement, concept, handiwork, magnum opus, opus, piece, production, work, brainchild, chef-d'oeuvre, pièce de résistance, work of genius |
| Main Entry: | view |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief |
| Synonyms: | attitude, close-up, concept, conception, consideration, conviction, deduction, eye*, feeling, impression, inference, judgment, judgment call, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, point of view, say-so, sentiment, slant*, thought, twist, two cents' worth, value judgment*, way of thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unit of language |
| Synonyms: | concept, designation, expression, idiom, locution, name, phrase, sound, term, usage, utterance, lexeme, morpheme, vocable |
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