conception

conception
n
1. conceiving, originating, hatching, generating; inventing, innovating, initiating, creating; developing, devising, drafting; fashioning, building, forming, fabricating; planning, concocting, producing, evolving; launching, bringing forth.
2. fertilization, fecundation, inception of pregnancy, fertilizing.
3. beginning, origination, source, genesis; outset, inchoation, origin, inception, emergence, commencement, prime, start; introduction, inauguration, initiation; birth, nativity, nascence; incipience, dawn, opening, budding.
4. imagining, deliberating, philosophizing, meditating, speculating; musing, fancying, dreaming, envisaging, envisioning; cogitating, conceptualizing, considering, weighing, concentrating, communing; consideration, speculation, realization, meditation.
5. concept, notion, idea, thought, abstraction, conceptualization, principle; belief, view, opinion, conviction, assumption, supposition, persuasion; surmise, conjecture, hypothesis, theory, postulate; consideration, conclusion, inference, apprehension.
6. design, plan, draft; sketch, outline; scheme, proposal, proposition, projection, delineation.

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  • conception — Conception. s. f. v. L action par laquelle la femme conçoit. Au temps de la conception de l enfant. depuis la conception jusques à l enfantement. quand la conception de l enfant se fait dans le ventre de la femme. la Feste de la Conception de la… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • conception — CONCEPTION. sub. f. L action par laquelle un enfant est conçu dans le ventre de sa mère. Ait temps de la conception de l enfant. Depuis la conception jusqu à l enfantement. La Fête de la Conception de la Sainte Vierge. f♛/b] Il se dit aussi Des… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • 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. [1913 Webster] I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • conception — early 14c., act of conceiving, from O.Fr. concepcion (Mod.Fr. conception) conception, grasp, comprehension, from L. conceptionem (nom. conceptio) a comprehending, conception, noun of action from stem of concipere (see CONCEIVE (Cf. conceive)).… …   Etymology dictionary

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