conceptions

NOUN

understanding; idea

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appreciation conceit concept impression interpretation notion perception realization

STRONG

apperception apprehension clue cognition comprehension consideration design dreaming explanation exposition fancy image inkling intellection meditation musing philosophizing picture plan representation speculation thought version

WEAK

cogitating communing concentrating considering deliberating envisaging fancying imagining meditating mental grasp speculating

Antonyms

STRONG

concrete fact ignorance misunderstanding reality truth

WEAK

abortion being death

NOUN

beginning, birth

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fertilization origin

STRONG

formation germination impregnation inception initiation insemination invention launching outset start

Antonyms

STRONG

conclusion end ending finish

WEAK

abortion being concrete death

Example Sentences

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Akerman, who died in 2015, is one of the pioneers of the personal cinema, of the candid refraction of first-person experience into drama, into documentary—and into audacious reconceptions of these cinematic forms themselves.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2019

It is also remarkably free of the shadows and subtexts that contemporary directors, like John Doyle and Bartlett Sher, keep uncovering in their reconceptions of vintage musicals.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

Anachronistic reconceptions like this usually wind up feeling strained before the end.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2012

In some scenes, Mr. Decker’s reconceptions of “La Traviata” are as heavy-handed as the melodramatic clichés he abhors in traditional productions.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2011