Definition of conception

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

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Idea :: Idea (n.) A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization..
Form :: Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law..
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
Idol :: Idol (n.) A false notion or conception; a fallacy.
Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus..
Conception :: Conception (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..
Form :: Form (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of..
Homaxonial :: Homaxonial (a.) Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology..
Idealism :: Idealism (n.) Conception of the ideal; imagery.
Preraphaelitism :: Preraphaelitism (n.) The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject..
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Ideal :: Ideal (n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc..
Synthesist :: Synthesis (n.) The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis..
Conceptional :: Conceptional (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
Superfice :: Superfete (v. t.) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.
Superconsequence :: Superconception (n.) Superfetation.
Conception :: Conception (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
Beau Ideal :: Beau ideal () A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model..
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