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conception
noun as in understanding; idea
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noun as in beginning, birth
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Example Sentences
The popular conception of gulls is not the most flattering.
The musical, in the words of the published script, “was written as a Japanese conception of what a Broadway musical might be as conceived from the traditional Japanese theatrical viewpoint.”
Reporters scoured death data, flagging Barnica’s case for its concerning cause of death: “sepsis” involving “products of conception.”
We supplemented it with the latest research and continue to supplement it with research coming in, especially some research that ran counter to our original conception.
Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai, pregnant during the conception of the project, had been “grasping at straws” for how she would highlight stories about her ancestral inheritance for her unborn baby.
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What are other ways to say conception?
The noun conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect’s conception delighted them. Thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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