Definition of conception

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Conception (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Notional :: Notional (a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions..
Form :: Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law..
Mistaken :: Mistaken (p.a.) Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken..
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
Oval :: Oval (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions..
Rationalize :: Rationalize (v. t.) To form a rational conception of.
Promerphological :: Promerphological (a.) Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception..
Misunderstanding :: Misunderstanding (n.) Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.
Beau Ideal :: Beau ideal () A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model..
Misconception :: Misconception (n.) Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
Notionally :: Notionally (adv.) In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Ideal :: Ideal (a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge..
Imaginer :: Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.
Preconception :: Preconception (n.) The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
Fancy :: Fancy (v. t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
A Priori :: A priori () Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought..
Fantasy :: Fantasy (n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor..
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Conceit :: Conceit (n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception..
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