conception

[Con*cep·tion]

Conception means any idea or concept, or a sum of ideas and concepts. Your conception for designing the little girl's room with a princess theme was a hit. Her evil stepsisters are jealous.

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The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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

Noun
the creation of something in the mind

Noun
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Noun
the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure"


n.
The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

n.
The state of being conceived; beginning.

n.
The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

n.
The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.

n.
The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.

n.
Idea; purpose; design.

n.
Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.


Conception

Con*cep"tion , n. [F. conception, L. conceptio, fr. concipere to conceive. See Conceive.] 1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
2. The state of being conceived; beginning.
Joy had the like conception in our eyes.
3. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived.
4. The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all.
5. The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.
He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies.
6. Idea; purpose; design.
Note this dangerous conception.
7. Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. [Obs.]
He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism.
Syn. -- Idea; notion; perception; apprehemsion; comprehension.

Conceptional

Con*cep"tion*al , a. Pertaining to conception.

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Usage Examples

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

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Other Usage Examples

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

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