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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Conceptionalist :: Conceptionalist (n.) A conceptualist.
Idealism :: Idealism (n.) Conception of the ideal; imagery.
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
Depth :: Depth (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
Imaginer :: Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.
Generalize :: Generalize (v. t.) To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars..
Promerphological :: Promerphological (a.) Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception..
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
Understanding :: Understanding (n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason..
Entelechy :: Entelechy (n.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence..
Synthesist :: Synthesis (n.) The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis..
Conceive :: Conceive (v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of..
Oval :: Oval (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions..
Nominalist :: Nominalist (n.) One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only..
Ampliative :: Ampliative (a.) Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received.
Notionally :: Notionally (adv.) In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
Epictetain :: Epictetain (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances..
Conceptional :: Conceptional (a.) Pertaining to conception.
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