conception

In a sentence

Six example sentences with conception, each labelled with its topic.

• After reading hundreds of trial records, she formed a conception of fairness that no single case had ever stated.

  Philosophy

• The museum traces how the Renaissance conception of beauty grew out of thousands of surviving sketches and workshop notes.

  Art

• Children build a conception of number slowly, generalizing from counting blocks, stairs, and biscuits long before they meet arithmetic.

  Psychology

• The court's conception of privacy grew out of decades of cases about letters, phone lines, and finally data stored abroad.

  Law

• Each party works from a different conception of freedom, one built from tax cases and the other from stories about schools.

  Politics

• The critic's conception of the hero was assembled from hundreds of novels, and no single character quite fits it.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains conception. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• explicit
• emergence
• economically
• expertise
• rejection
• illustrate
• accessibility
• economist
• styling
• yield
• evaluation
• criteria