conception
noun
the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
conceptive
-
a word derived from
conception.
Example Sentences
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The conceptive power is shown, as Binet and Féré remark, by the fact that our imagination has done away with the end of a nerve which should be seen at every instant of our lives.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris
The conceptive powers want much more purification than the perceptive; and it is only as we purify the conceptive that we shall get the perceptive clear.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
But that size in pictures is no test of conceptive artistic genius needs no demonstration, though it may be conceded to be a gauge of executive ability.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge
Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
The writer of fiction should be warned that it is supremely difficult to avoid becoming artificial and mechanical, and that he will surely become so if he does his conceptive thinking in terms of analysis.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
