Crossword-Solution: PRECONCEPTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Preconception | n. | The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “PRECONCEPTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a preconceived idea | 1 answer |
| prejudgment | 24 answers |
| predetermination | 27 answers |
| psychological | 30 answers |
| prenotion | 30 answers |
| precognition | 34 answers |
| Prognostication | 35 answers |
| Paranormal | 36 answers |
| Preview | 38 answers |
| prophecy | 39 answers |
| Portent | 39 answers |
| presentiment | 47 answers |
| Presage | 48 answers |
| psychical | 48 answers |
| prescience | 49 answers |
| Premonition | 53 answers |
| Omen | 53 answers |
| Augury | 54 answers |
| predicting | 55 answers |
| prediction | 57 answers |
| Perception | 58 answers |
| Knowledge | 62 answers |
| foretoken | 63 answers |
| Bias | 67 answers |
| prescient | 69 answers |
| Enlightenment | 73 answers |
| lore | 76 answers |
| Preternatural | 78 answers |
| Penetrating | 78 answers |
| Prophetic | 80 answers |
| Harbinger | 81 answers |
| Supernatural | 85 answers |
| will | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PRECONCEPTION (5)
The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty.
And there is another side to this, for the parent begins with an imperfect notion of the child’s character, formed in early years or during the equinoctial gales of youth; to this he adheres, noting only the facts which suit with his preconception; and wherever a person fancies himself unjustly judged, he at once and finally gives up the effort to speak truth.
Like Hawthorne's, like the works of our great symbolists, they are restricted by a sense of some obtaining conception, some weird metaphysical _weird_ or preconception.
She's rather a nervous woman altogether, I'm sorry to say." This did not square with my preconception of her.
But it persists with great tenacity as a commonplace preconception even in modern life, as is shown, for instance, by our habitual aversion to menial employments.
Quotes with PRECONCEPTION (3)
Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me
I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).