conceptional
Americanadjective
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relating to a concept or concepts, or to how a concept is formed; conceptual.
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relating to or involved in the process of conceiving and developing an idea, designing, planning, etc.
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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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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
The task which I put before them in a number of variations was this: I used lists of words of which half, or one more or less than half, belonged to one single conceptional group.
From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg
His system may, therefore, be described as conceptional.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
All the substitutions of atoms for the real thing, and of energies for the real changes, are merely conceptional schemes to satisfy this demand.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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