notion

Noun

Meaning

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.

Sense; mind.

An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.

Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

belief opinion impression view idea sense concept understanding hypothesis feeling perception assumption conception hunch inkling
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Antonyms

fidelity fact need evidence base basis
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Hypernyms

idea concept article construct conception thought

Hyponyms

effect presence intuition ribbon hunch suspicion

Phrases with the word

fool notion fantastic notion fanciful notion fusion notion false notion denoting a notion

Anagrams

Nintoo

Examples

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. Alexis de Tocqueville

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. Lewis Mumford

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. Iris Murdoch

It is the old cow's notion that she never was a calf. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

noting noting an edge of a charge noting the time notional notional amount notional opposite