Definition of Conception

1. Noun. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances.


2. Noun. The act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon.
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Derivative terms: Conceive

3. Noun. The event that occurred at the beginning of something. "From its creation the plan was doomed to failure"
Exact synonyms: Creation
Generic synonyms: Beginning
Specialized synonyms: Fecundation, Fertilisation, Fertilization, Impregnation
Derivative terms: Create, Create

4. Noun. The creation of something in the mind.

Definition of Conception

1. n. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Definition of Conception

1. Noun. The act of conceiving. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being conceived; the beginning. ¹

3. Noun. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote. ¹

4. Noun. The start of pregnancy. ¹

5. Noun. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo. ¹

6. Noun. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions. ¹

7. Noun. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conception

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Conception

1. The onset of pregnancy, marked by implantation of the blastocyst, the formation of a viable zygote. Origin: L. Conceptio This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conception

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Literary usage of Conception

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Now every conception must indeed be considered as a representation which is contained in an infinite multitude of different possible representations, which, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Cf. also the " Revelations'' of Catherine Emmerich which contain the entire apocryphal legend of the miraculous conception of Mary—see ..."

3. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"An even more instructive instance of the development of theological doctrine is to be found in the history of the dogma of the Immaculate conception of the ..."

4. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"PHILOSOPHY as a conception, historically, is an advance upon, aa it is an outgrowth from, the conception of mental development in general and that of ..."

5. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1900)
"He died shortly afterwards (188;).124 (a) Poetical and speculative world-conception In his attempts to determine a conception of the world Fechner opposes ..."

6. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Effect of Ibis conception on the objects of human desire. appetite the desire determined by consciousness of some sort, as when we say of a drunkard, ..."

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