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conception - 20 thesaurus results
| 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 |
| 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: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, birth |
| Synonyms: | fertilization, formation, inception, initiation, invention, origin, outset, start, germination, impregnation, insemination, launching |
| Antonyms: | abortion, death |
| Main Entry: | comprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take*, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, realization, sense, take*, aha, apperception, prehension, slow take |
| Antonyms: | mistake, misunderstanding, incomprehension, misinterpretation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| 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: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inkling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, clue |
| Synonyms: | conception, cue, hint, hunch*, impression, indication, innuendo, intimation, lead, notion, suggestion, suspicion, tip, whisper, faintest idea, foggiest idea, glimmering, hot lead, sneaking suspicion, tipoff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opinion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief |
| Synonyms: | assessment, assumption, attitude, conception, conclusion, conjecture, estimate, estimation, eye*, fancy, feeling, guess, hypothesis, idea, impression, inclination, inference, judgment, mind, notion, persuasion, point of view, postulate, presumption, reaction, sentiment, slant, speculation, supposition, surmise, suspicion, take*, theorem, theory, thesis, think*, thought, view, viewpoint, imagining, presupposition, say-so |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | origination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, dawning, starting point |
| 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: | philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principles, knowledge |
| Synonyms: | aesthetics, attitude, axiom, conception, doctrine, idea, ideology, logic, outlook, reason, reasoning, system, tenet, theory, thinking, thought, truth, values, view, viewpoint, wisdom, beliefs, convictions, metaphysics, ontology, rationalism |
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | sentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotion, belief |
| Synonyms: | affect, attitude, bias, conception, conviction, disposition, eye, feeling, idea, inclination, judgment, leaning, mind, opinion, partiality, passion, penchant, persuasion, position, posture, predilection, propensity, sensibility, sentimentality, slant, tendency, tenderness, thought, view, affectivity, emotionalism, hearts and flowers, inclining, overemotionalism, romanticism, softheartedness, tender feeling, way of thinking |
| Main Entry: | tenet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principle |
| Synonyms: | article of faith, assumption, canon, conception, conviction, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, impression, maxim, opinion, persuasion, position, precept, presumption, profession, rule, system, teaching, thesis, trust, view, self-conviction |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| Synonyms: | building, composition, conception, construction, designing, fabrication, origination, performing, planning, producing, production, authoring, causation, constituting, contriving, devising, fancying, fashioning, forging, formulation, occasioning, shaping |
| Main Entry: | procreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | breeding, conception, generation, propagation, begetting, engenderment, impregnation |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, fabric, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, shape, structure, system, turn, type, erecting, erection, fabricating, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, systematization |
| Antonyms: | destruction, disorganization, ruin, ruins, disfigurement |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, making, origination, procreation, production, formulation, laying down, nascency, nativity, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, bargain |
| Synonyms: | accord, arrangement, buy, compromise, conception, contract, pact, pledge, transaction, understanding, prearrangement |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketch, draft |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, blueprint, chart, composition, conception, constitution, construction, delineation, depiction, diagram, doodle, drawing, dummy, form, formation, idea, layout, makeup, map, method, model, outline, pattern, perspective, picture, plan, scheme, study, treatment, comp, paste-up, tracery, tracing |
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