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Another word for conception

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conception

n.

The act of conceiving mentally
apprehension, comprehension, imagining, speculating, conceptualization, originating, devising, formulating, bethinking, dreaming, cogitating, deliberating, fancying, philosophizing, realization, considering, musing, speculation, envisaging, understanding, cognition, perception, mental grasp, apperception, formulation of an idea, formulation of a principle, formulation of a mental image, hatching; see also thought 1.
The act of conceiving physically
inception, impregnation, insemination; see fertilization 2.
A mental image
representation, impression, idea, notion; see opinion 1, thought 2.
Something that is conceived
original idea, design, plan, interpretation; see interpretation 2, plan 2. See syn. study at idea.

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Another word for conception

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That which exists in the mind as the product of careful mental activity:

concept, idea, image, notion, perception, thought. See thoughts

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Yet Carmen insisted that any artificial method of conception was sinful – playing God.
First there were the natural sciences, themselves only just emerging from a confused conception of their true method; especially those which studied the borderland of physical and mental phenomena, the medical sciences; and pre-eminently that science which has since become so popular, the science of biology.
To this high conception of a preacher's function the prophet was faithful throughout his career.
He could not reconcile the charming impression he had of Natasha, whom he had known from a child, with this new conception of her baseness, folly, and cruelty.
There is no hint in Ezekiel's writings of the grandiose conception of Isa.

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