| Main Entry: | concept |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, apprehension, approach, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, conceit, conception, conceptualization, consideration, fool notion, hypothesis, image, impression, intellection, notion, perception, slant, supposition, theory, thought, twist, view, wrinkle |
| 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: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | image |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concept |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, conceit, conception, construct, figure, idea, impression, intellection, mental picture, notion, perception, phantasm, thought, trope, vision |
Antonyms: |
concrete, entity |
| Main Entry: | impression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, belief, conceit, concept, conception, conjecture, conviction, fancy, feel, hunch, image, inkling, intellection, memory, notion, opinion, perception, recollection, sensation, sense, supposition, suspicion, theory, thought, view |
Antonyms: |
materiality, physicality |
| 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, intellection, intimation, intuition, judgment, knowledge, opinion, penetration, perception, sentiment, slant, spark, suggestion, telltale, thought, twist, understanding, view, wind, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding, idea |
Synonyms: |
acumen, apprehending, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, intellection, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint |
| Main Entry: | reason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental analysis |
Synonyms: |
acumen, apprehension, argumentation, bounds, brain*, brains, comprehension, deduction, dialectics, discernment, generalization, induction, inference, intellect, intellection, judgment, limits, logic, lucidity, marbles, mentality, mind, moderation, propriety, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, reasonableness, reasoning, saneness, sanity, sense, senses, sensibleness, sound mind, soundness, speculation, understanding, wisdom, wit |