conceptionnoun
uk/kənˈsep.ʃən/us/kənˈsep.ʃən/conception noun (IDEA)
C2 [ C or U ] an idea of what something or someone is like, or a basic understanding of a situation or a principle:
People from different cultures have different conceptions of the world.
She has a conception of people as being basically good.
I thought the book's writing was dreadful, and its conception (= the ideas on which it was based) even worse.
He has absolutely no conception of how a successful business should run.
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- construct
- dogma
- fancy
- ideology
- inspiration
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- proposition
- propositional
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- thrust
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conception noun (BABY)
[ U ] the process of a male and a female sex cell joining and causing a baby to start to form:
at/from the moment of conception
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Obstetrics: processes & stages connected with sexual reproduction
- curse
- egg
- hot flush
- impregnate
- menstrual period
- menstruate
- menstruation
- ova
- ovulate
- perinatal
- PMS
- PMT
- postmenopausal
- premenstrual
- prepubescent
- preterm
- puberty
- pubescent
- sb's biological clock is ticking idiom
- sexual
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