conceptual
[kuh n-sep-choo-uh l]
Origin of conceptual
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Contemporary Examples
Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.
In France, he frequented the Surrealists, conceptually drawing from their principles of visual subversion.
“With Bar Ama, what I wanted to do, conceptually, was to take the ideas around Tex-Mex and make them my own,” he said.
He says the project is not about the end product itself, but about breaking another boundary, conceptually.
Conceptually, creating a fantasy world unto itself is a more dynamic and immersive approach to the book.
Historical Examples
We need not regard them conceptually as unchangeable or irreplaceable.
Natural PhilosophyWilhelm Ostwald
That is, it is felt as repeated and conceptually comprehended.
Natural PhilosophyWilhelm Ostwald
Whatever a dozen men may agree on conceptually, will be differently thought of by any one woman.
Criminal PsychologyHans Gross
The bee may be only perceptually intelligent; the man who observes its action may or may not be conceptually intelligent.
The events of sense perception permit also conceptually of infinite division in their spatial relations.
conceptual
- relating to or concerned with concepts; abstract
- concerned with the definitions or relations of the concepts of some field of enquiry rather than with the facts
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Word Origin and History for conceptually
adv.
1842, from conceptual + -ly (2).
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conceptual
adj.
1820, "pertaining to mental conception" (there is an isolated use from 1662), from Medieval Latin conceptualis, from Latin conceptus "a collecting, gathering, conceiving," past participle of concipere (see conceive). Related: Conceptualism; conceptualist.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
conceptual
(kən-sĕp′chōō-əl)- Relating to concepts or the the formation of concepts.
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