Conceptions Synonyms and Antonyms

The creation of something in the mind
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. designs
  2. creations
  3. innovations
  4. inventions
Antonyms:
  1. abortions
  2. deaths
An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. notions
  2. thoughts
  3. ideas
  4. images
  5. impressions
  6. starts
  7. purposes
  8. plans
  9. origins
  10. perceptions
  11. concepts
  12. notations
  13. inventions
  14. inceptions
  15. imaginations
  16. geneses
  17. fertilizations
  18. designs
  19. beliefs
  20. beginnings
  21. apprehensions
  22. representations
Antonyms:
  1. concretes
  2. misconceptions
  3. beings
The act of conceiving physically
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inceptions
The act of conceiving mentally
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. perceptions
  2. cognitions
  3. understandings
  4. speculations
  5. musings
  6. realizations
  7. apprehensions
Something conceived in the mind or believed by a group of people; a concept, thought, or belief:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ideas

Conceptions Sentence Examples

  • Nevertheless, though the conceptions originally denoted by " evolution " and " development " were shown to be untenable, the words retained their application to the process by which the embryos of living beings gradually make their appearance; and the terms" development," " Entwickelung,"and " evolutio " are now indiscriminately used for the series of genetic changes exhibited by living beings, by writers who would emphatically deny that " development " or " Entwickelung " or " evolutio," in the sense in which these words were usually employed by Bonnet or Haller, ever occurs.

  • In this endeavour Lotze discards as useless and untenable many favourite conceptions of the school, many crude notions of everyday life.

  • The conceptions of "element," "compound" and "mixture" became more precise than they had been hitherto; in an element all the atoms are alike, in a compound all the molecules are alike, in a mixture there are different kinds of molecules.

  • All the phenomena, forces and laws of nature, together with mental conceptions, were alike personified.

  • The Discourse of Method and the Meditations apply what the Rules for the Direction of the Mind had regarded in particular instances to our conceptions of the world as a whole.

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