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noun

conception

CEFR B2

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

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

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