conceptional

American  

[kuhn-sep-shuhn-uhl] / kənˈsɛp ʃən əl /

adjective

1. relating to a concept or concepts, or to how a concept is formed; conceptual.

2. relating to or involved in the process of conceiving and developing an idea, designing, planning, etc.

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Other Word Forms

• conceptionalization
  noun
• conceptionalize
  verb
• interconceptional
  adjective
• postconceptional
  adjective
• preconceptional
  adjective
• transconceptional
  adjective
• conceptionally
  adverb
• preconceptionally
  adverb

Explanation

Conceptional describes an idea or the process of coming up with that idea. If you and your brother are just brainstorming about what your new business should sell, your enterprise is still in the conceptional stage. Conceptional is an uncommon, rarely used adjective that's sometimes used synonymously with the much more common and generally preferable conceptual: Both words have to do with thinking and concepts, or ideas, but conceptional is often more focused on the conception — origin, or beginnings — of an idea. The word conceptional is more commonly used in the medical world to reference the age of an embryo during pregnancy, from the time of conception. The Latin root of this word is concipere, "to take in and hold."

Example Sentences

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conceptional

Sloan school unlike Yale, Harvard or Wharton built itself for a long time on certain structural, conceptional, underpinnings.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2015

The question simply is, therefore, to grasp scientifically, that is, by conceptional thought, what we are already familiar with from other sources.

From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

If, as he conceives, conceptional totemism was transformed in the central tribes into patrilineal totemism, I fail to see why the phratries or classes should descend in the female line.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas

But we must also remember that the Upani@sads do not represent so much a conceptional system of philosophy as visions of the seers who are possessed by the spirit of this Brahman.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

Here, again, reality is left behind and a mere conceptional construction is put in its place.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various