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Notion
NO'TION, n. [L. known; to know.]
1. Conception; mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined. We may have a just notion of power, or false notions respecting spirit.
Notion and idea are primarily different; idea being the conception of something visible, as the idea of a square or a triangle; and notion the conception of things invisible or intellectual, as the notion we have of spirits. But from negligence in the use of idea, the two words are constantly confounded.
What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
Few agree in their notions about these words.
That notion of hunger, bold, sound, color, thought, wish or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hunger, cold, etc.
2. sentiment; opinion; as the extravagant notions they entertain of themselves.
3. Sense; understanding; intellectual power. [Not used.]
4. Inclination; in vulgar use; as, I have a notion to do this or that.
notion appears in definitions for these words:
Airy Anticipation Barnacle Bookful Cloudy Complication Conceit Conception Conformity Confusedness Conjecture Connate Conscience Correct Crude Current Dawning Disabuse Dogma Earwig Enough Fanatic Fanaticism Fancy Fatherhood Firmness Herodians High High-principled Idea Imagine Indistinct Judgment Latitudinarian Lesson Life Light Look Menstruum Misconceit Misconception Misjudge Mispersuade Mispersuasion Notion Notional Notionally O Observation Opiniative Opiniatry Opining Opinionative Opinionist Paradoxical Passion Perception Peripateticism Phantasm Pharisaism Philosophy Poison Preconceit Preconceive Prejudice Prenotion Presensation Previous Propagate Puritanic Puritanism Puritanize Puzzle-headed Quixotism Rattle Receive Rime Romantic Run Sect Sense Sentiment Stamp Strangeness Tempt Tradition Whim Whimsey
Airy Anticipation Barnacle Bookful Cloudy Complication Conceit Conception Conformity Confusedness Conjecture Connate Conscience Correct Crude Current Dawning Disabuse Dogma Earwig Enough Fanatic Fanaticism Fancy Fatherhood Firmness Herodians High High-principled Idea Imagine Indistinct Judgment Latitudinarian Lesson Life Light Look Menstruum Misconceit Misconception Misjudge Mispersuade Mispersuasion Notion Notional Notionally O Observation Opiniative Opiniatry Opining Opinionative Opinionist Paradoxical Passion Perception Peripateticism Phantasm Pharisaism Philosophy Poison Preconceit Preconceive Prejudice Prenotion Presensation Previous Propagate Puritanic Puritanism Puritanize Puzzle-headed Quixotism Rattle Receive Rime Romantic Run Sect Sense Sentiment Stamp Strangeness Tempt Tradition Whim Whimsey
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