conception

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 22.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of conceiving.
2. noun The state of being conceived; the beginning.
3. noun The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
4. noun The start of pregnancy.
5. noun The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
6. noun The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
7. noun An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
8. noun Something conceived or designed.

Similar words

construct creation concept innovation invention excogitation design pregnancy childbearing child-bearing

Often followed by

of and is that in which to was as

Word family

concept conceptional conceptions conceptive concepts conceptual conceptualisation conceptualise conceptualised conceptualises