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Synonyms for conception
kənˈsɛp ʃəncon·cep·tion

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. conceptionnoun

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  2. conceptionnoun

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  3. conceptionnoun

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  4. conceptionnoun

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  5. conceptionnoun

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  6. conceptionnoun

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    misconception

  7. conceptionnoun

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  8. conceptionnoun

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    misconception

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. conception

    An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

    Synonyms:
    belief, caprice, conceit, desire, fancy, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

    Antonyms:
    actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

    Preposition:
    To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. concept, conception, constructnoun

    an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

    Synonyms:
    construct, excogitation, innovation, concept, creation, design, invention

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  2. conceptionnoun

    the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

    Synonyms:
    construct, design, invention, innovation, excogitation, creation, concept

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  3. creation, conceptionnoun

    the event that occurred at the beginning of something

    "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure"

    Synonyms:
    foundation, world, instauration, design, construct, invention, creative activity, cosmos, creation, concept, excogitation, universe, macrocosm, institution, founding, innovation, initiation, origination, introduction, existence

    Antonyms:
    misconception

  4. invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, designnoun

    the creation of something in the mind

    Synonyms:
    intention, foundation, initiation, instauration, design, introduction, construct, designing, figure, creation, plan, excogitation, aim, intent, blueprint, institution, founding, innovation, pattern, invention, origination, concept, purpose

    Antonyms:
    misconception

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. conceptionnoun

    Synonyms:
    conceiving

  2. conceptionnoun

    Synonyms:
    apprehension, IMAGINATION, the mind's eye

  3. conceptionnoun

    Synonyms:
    notion, idea, thought, fancy, conceit, impression

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. conceptionnoun

    Synonyms:
    ideation, imagination, idea, concept, notion, impression

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "conception":

    design, concepción, concept, kwun, idea, designing, notion, vision, pregnancy

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How to use conception in a sentence?

  1. Alan Patrick Herbert:

    The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  2. Ryan Bomberger:

    Believing that human life begins at conception isn’t religion — it’s science. But defending human life and dignity is at the core of our faith, as it was with slavery abolitionists and civil rights freedom fighters.

  3. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

    Your infinity number is the age you were at conception to the age you were at soul gift to the age you die. However you are one of many incarnations so you must add all these numbers to reach your full infinity asensuion number. If you know your asensuion number you can use it to rule your universe. Wjen you have this universe you must then understand it before going further on your spiritual journey. Then you will be given glimpses of other u-universes. These are not mistypes.

  4. Alice Walker:

    Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

  5. Rachel Yehuda:

    The gene changes in the children could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents, to our knowledge, this provides the first demonstration of transmission of pre-conception stress effects resulting in epigenetic changes in both the exposed parents and their offspring in humans.


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