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NOTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items
Example:
buttons and needles are notions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("notion" is a kind of...):
article (one of a class of artifacts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notion"):
ribbon (notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A general inclusive concept
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("notion" is a kind of...):
concept; conception; construct (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notion"):
mumpsimus (a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable)
Derivation:
notional (being of the nature of a notion or concept)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A vague idea in which some confidence is placed
Example:
I had a feeling that she was lying
Synonyms:
belief; feeling; impression; notion; opinion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("notion" is a kind of...):
idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notion"):
presence (the impression that something is present)
effect (an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived))
first blush (at the first glimpse or impression)
hunch; intuition; suspicion (an impression that something might be the case)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea
Example:
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("notion" is a kind of...):
idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)
Context examples:
NOTE(S): This is marked as derived since the notion of duration is captured in the IVL (width) portion of the actualDateRange attribute.
(Performed Activity Actual Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
“I've taken a notion into my old numbskull,” observed Silver.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She looked at him, prettily puzzled, for she did not quite like the persistence with which he clung to his notion.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the midst of my distress, I had no notion of going back.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But as to your ideas that the man had robbed the house before William tackled him, I think it a most absurd notion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But you have no notion as to what it could have been?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She cannot have given her right notions of what was due to the Admiral.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
May be she is ill in town; nothing in the world more likely, for I have a notion she is always rather sickly.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Who had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self-consequence but herself?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The current study involving retinitis pigmentosa underscores the notion that the complement system may in fact exacerbate or curb retinal degeneration depending on the context.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
