Definition of conception

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Conception (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension..

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Conceive :: Conceive (v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of..
Conception :: Conception (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
Superfice :: Superfete (v. t.) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.
Interpretation :: Interpretation (n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
Self-contradiction :: Self-contradiction (n.) The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction..
Conception :: Conception (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension..
Misconceit :: Misconceit (n.) Misconception.
Aggrandize :: Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress..
Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus..
Grand :: Grand (superl.) Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception..
See :: See (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
Image :: Image (n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
Form :: Form (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of..
Realism :: Realism (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle)..
Concept :: Concept (n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Notionally :: Notionally (adv.) In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Category :: Category (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament..
Depth :: Depth (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..
Design :: Design (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
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