conceptions
- 1Plural of conception.
Competing conceptions of justice shaped the long debate in the assembly.
Medieval and modern conceptions of the universe differ in fundamental ways.
Note
The countable side of a noun that works equally well as a mass noun. In its mass use, as a faculty or an act, conception takes no plural. Once each act yields something distinct, a pregnancy begun or an idea formed, the results can be counted. In practice the plural usually sets ideas side by side, held by different thinkers, traditions or eras, and it typically takes of: conceptions of justice.
conceptions is a form of conception
conception, noun: A product of thought or imagination, such as an idea, mental image, plan, or design. Full entry
- Forms
- conceptionconceptions plural
- Spelling
- conception → conceptions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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