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(n)
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
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Emotion; impression.
A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
Alternative spelling of whimsy. [A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.]
A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
(adj)
Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
The state or quality of being aware of something.
(uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
The capability for rational thought.
(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.
A distinct physical object.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of realization. [The act of realizing, as:]
A small dot or mark.
Thought; verbal noun of think.
Something actual as opposed to invented.
A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
Power of acute observation and deduction
The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
A course of action that a person intends to follow.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.
(countable) A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.
A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
The act of presenting, or something presented.
A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
(semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
A short written or spoken expression.
(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard
The soul of a person or other creature.
An angle, outlook or point of view.
The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.
A general thought, feeling, or sense.
(countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
Something constructed from parts.
(also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
Understanding.
The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
A mark left by something that has passed along.
The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
(N)
Ideas usually refer to a person's thoughts or a developed concepts.
a 1992 sixteen-disc box set compilation of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.
(countable) A firmly held belief.
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
The imagination.
The state of being actual or real; realness.
A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
The act of postulating or something postulated.
A self-evident or obvious truth.
The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
(now in more positive sense) The fact of being believable; believability, credibility.
the property of being universal, common to all members of a class
An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something.
(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
A new conception or way of conceiving something
The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
(uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
The quality of being provisional or temporary.
An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.