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Conception

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

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Abstract 76% connected

Withdraw; separate.

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Abstraction 76% connected

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Category 76% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Concoction 76% connected

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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Contrivance 76% connected

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

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Dimension 76% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Fact 76% connected

A doing, making, or preparing.

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Fecundation 76% connected

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from…

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Fertilization 76% connected

The act or process of rendering fertile.

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Hypothesis 76% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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Impregnation 76% connected

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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Law 76% connected

In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

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Notion 76% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Regulation 76% connected

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

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Rule 76% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Theory 76% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Whole 76% connected

Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar s…

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Creativeness 76% connected

The quality of being creative.

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Conceive 74% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Conceive 74% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Create 74% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Create 74% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Synonym 7

Concept 92% connected

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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Construct 92% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Creation 92% connected

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Design 92% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Excogitation 92% connected

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

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Innovation 92% connected

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

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Invention 92% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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Antonym 2

Misconception 94% connected

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

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Misconception 94% connected

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

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