conception

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an idea of what something or someone is like, or a basic understanding of a situation or a principle:

People from different cultures have different conceptions of the world.

She has a conception of people as being basically good.

I thought the book's writing was dreadful, and its conception (= the ideas on which it was based) even worse.

He has absolutely no conception of how a successful business should run.

the process of a male and a female sex cell joining and causing a baby to start to form:

at/from the moment of conception

an idea or a particular way you understand or think about something, or a basic understanding of a situation or principle:

[ U ] Most children have no conception of time.

the process in which a baby starts to form in the uterus from the coming together of a sperm and an egg