Another word for idea
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Another word for idea
Noun
Something one thinks or knows
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- Impression also implies vagueness of an idea provoked by some external stimulus I have the impression that she's unhappy
- Notion suggests a vague thought or one not fully considered I had a notion to go
- Thought is used of any idea, whether or not expressed, that occurs to the mind in reasoning or contemplation she rarely speaks her thoughts
- concept ion" style="font-weight: 600; color: inherit; text-decoration-color: #3A65B5" > Conception , often equivalent to concept, specifically refers to something conceived in the mind, or imagined my conception of how the role should be played
- Concept refers to a generalized idea of a class of objects, based on knowledge of particular instances of the class his concept of a republic
- Idea , the most general of these terms, may be applied to anything existing in the mind as an object of knowledge or thought
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