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Synonyms of conception in English:

conception


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noun

1‘preparations for pregnancy can begin before conception’

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inception of pregnancy, conceiving, fertilization, impregnation, insemination
rare fecundation

2‘the time between a product's conception and its launch’

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inception, genesis, origination, creation, formation, formulation, invention
beginning, origin

3‘the original conception involved a shopping complex run by local people’

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plan, scheme, project, proposal, proposition, design, outline
intention, aim, idea

4‘his conception of democracy’

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idea, concept, notion, conceptualization, understanding, abstraction
theory, hypothesis, postulation
perception, image, impression, picture

5‘the administration had no conception of women's problems’

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understanding, ability to understand, ability to imagine, comprehension, appreciation, knowledge, grasp, apprehension
idea, inkling
informal clue about