Conception Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-sĕpshən
The act of conceiving mentally
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. apprehension
  2. comprehension
  3. imagining
  4. speculating
  5. conceptualization
  6. originating
  7. devising
  8. formulating
  9. bethinking
  10. dreaming
  11. cogitating
  12. deliberating
  13. fancying
  14. philosophizing
  15. realization
  16. considering
  17. musing
  18. speculation
  19. envisaging
  20. understanding
  21. cognition
  22. perception
  23. mental grasp
  24. apperception
  25. formulation of an idea
  26. formulation of a principle
  27. formulation of a mental image
  28. hatching
The act of conceiving physically
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inception
  2. impregnation
  3. insemination
Something that is conceived
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. interpretation
  2. plan
  3. design
  4. original idea
  5. creation
  6. invention
  7. innovation
  8. excogitation
Antonyms:
  1. being
  2. concrete
Something conceived in the mind or believed by a group of people; a concept, thought, or belief:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. idea

Words Related to Conception

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Conception Sentence Examples

  • Yet Carmen insisted that any artificial method of conception was sinful – playing God.

  • And the only such conception known to historians is that of power.

  • This conception makes a science of society possible.

  • Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes."

  • 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.

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