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UK
/nˈəʊʃən/
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[ US /ˈnoʊʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
what are your feelings about the crisis?
his impression of her was favorable
it strengthened my belief in his sincerity
I had a feeling that she was lying -
(usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items
buttons and needles are notions -
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories
he had a whimsy about flying to the moon
whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it - a general inclusive concept
How To Use notion In A Sentence
- It is important not to confuse the sociological meaning of age with the notion of chronological age, the length of time a person has been alive. Sociology
- This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty. Archive 2008-02-03
- Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
- I have said enough elsewhere to discredit such notions.
- That notion identifies heritability with the regression of the offspring phenotype on the parental (or biparental mean in the case of sexual reproduction), where both phenotypes are presented as z-scores (i.e., set to mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1). Miss Winter Solstice
- He has no notion of the difficulty of the problem.
- You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
- It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
- By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
- At least it is not, so long as we avoid equivocating on the notion of satisfying a desire.