Synonym: concept, construct, creation, design, excogitation, innovation, invention. Similar words: concept, reception, perception, exception, concentration, consumption, deceptive, acceptance. Meaning: [kən'sepʃn] 
n. 1. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 2. the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon 3. the event that occurred at the beginning of something 4. the creation of something in the mind.
n. 1. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 2. the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon 3. the event that occurred at the beginning of something 4. the creation of something in the mind. 
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121. Changing our conception of international law could therefore have a bearing on our capacity tor achieving peace.
122. The particular conception sees both processes as necessary features of a social representation.
123. The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception.
124. If we adopt the more expansive conception of democracy which has been used throughout this book, the case is even stronger.
125. The great bells of the Immaculate Conception chimed the hour.
126. The difference is that the first is based on a spatial conception and the second on a temporal one.
127. Third, Rawls' conception of the person does not lead to unanimity of moral views.
128. It overrides all conception, all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need.
129. We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae.
130. The researchers studied levels of cotinine - a product of nicotine - in women undergoing assisted conception.
131. The cell cycle at conception and in young embryos A new life begins with the fusion of sperm and egg.
132. Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.
133. Even if we do find such conventions, the appeal of the conception still depends on the political ideal of protected expectations.
134. At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
135. Until you've seen them, you have no conception of their courage. Bob Hope 
136. The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
137. In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates, though this did not reach significance.
138. Since its conception, the Format has been winning hearts and minds as a useful mechanism.
139. The entire physical universe in this conception was only a few times larger than the distance from Earth to the Moon.
140. It evokes a fact, i.e. an object of conception, rather than an object of perception.
141. There will also always be accidental occurrences during the period from conception to birth, and errors during and after birth.
142. It does not infuse itself at conception - or any other magic moment.
143. Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.
144. You seem to have no conception of where we stand!
145. The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
146. A different conception of collective bargaining in terms both of its character and role is applicable in socialist countries with centrally-planned economies.
147. We have no conception of the interconnections that influence us in our associations of words and meanings.
148. Further research showed that problems with conception and miscarriages were more frequent among societies where low levels of wheatgerm were consumed.
149. Our everyday language reinforces the conception of the womb as a permanent space,[www.Sentencedict.com] an empty lodging waiting for a tenant.
150. You may not agree with your child's conception of how her room should look.
More similar words: concept, reception, perception, exception, concentration, consumption, deceptive, acceptance, concern, concede, concert, conceive, concerning, option, concentrate, adoption, concentrating, conclusion, assumption, corruption, description, prescription, condition, conditions, convention, conviction, connection, contribution, conversation, conventional.