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conception
Overview of noun conception
The noun conception has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (11) concept, conception, construct -- (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)
2. (4) conception -- (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)
3. (2) creation, conception -- (the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure")
4. (1) invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design -- (the creation of something in the mind)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conception
4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
conception
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
creation, conception
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun conception
3 of 4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
=> conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
=> notion
=> category
=> rule, regulation
=> property, attribute, dimension
=> abstraction, abstract
=> quantity
=> part, section, division
=> whole
=> law, natural law
=> law, law of nature
=> lexicalized concept
=> hypothesis, possibility, theory
=> fact
=> rule, linguistic rule
Sense 3
creation, conception
=> fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> concoction
=> contrivance
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conception
4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
=> idea, thought
Sense 2
conception
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Sense 3
creation, conception
=> beginning
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
Antonyms of noun conception
1 of 4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
Antonym of misconception (Sense 1)
=>misconception
Member Holonyms of noun conception
Substance Holonyms of noun conception
Part Holonyms of noun conception
Member Meronyms of noun conception
Substance Meronyms of noun conception
Part Meronyms of noun conception
Meronyms of noun conception
Holonyms of noun conception
Attributes of noun conception
Derived Forms of noun conception
3 of 4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
RELATED TO>(adj) conceptional#1
=> conceptional, ideational, notional
Sense 2
conception
RELATED TO>(verb) conceive#3
=> conceive
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
RELATED TO>(verb) conceive#1
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
Domain of noun conception
Domain Terms of noun conception
Familiarity of noun conception
conception used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun conception
4 senses of conception
Sense 1
concept, conception, construct
> idea, thought
=> inspiration
=> cogitation
=> concept, conception, construct
=> preoccupation
=> misconception
=> plan, program, programme
=> figment
=> generalization, generalisation, generality
=> suggestion
=> impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion
=> reaction
=> theorem
=> notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey
=> meaning, substance
=> burden
=> theme, motif
=> ideal
=> idealization, idealisation
=> keynote
=> kink
Sense 2
conception
> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bondage
=> outercourse
=> safe sex
=> conception
=> sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> pleasure
=> sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life
=> carnal abuse
=> coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
=> foreplay, arousal, stimulation
=> perversion, sexual perversion
=> autoeroticism, autoerotism
=> promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
=> lechery
=> homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness
=> bisexuality
=> heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness
=> bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty
Sense 3
creation, conception
> beginning
=> casus belli
=> emergence, egress, issue
=> origin, origination, inception
=> genesis, generation
=> ground floor
=> emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> start
=> creation, conception
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
=> fecundity, fruitfulness
=> flight
=> genius, wizardry
=> imagination, imaginativeness, vision
=> invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness
Meronyms of noun conception
4 senses of conception
Sense 4
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
=> creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
HAS PART: divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking
Holonyms of noun conception
Grep of noun conception
conception
immaculate conception
immaculate conception of the virgin mary
misconception
preconception
Grep of adj conception
conceptional
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