What does conceive of mean?
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con·ceive of
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Princeton's WordNet
imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisageverb
form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
"Can you conceive of him as the president?"
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conceive of
To "conceive of" something generally means to form or develop an idea, plan, or concept in one's mind. It refers to being capable of imagining or understanding something.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of conceive of in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of conceive of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of conceive of in a Sentence
The fact that someone could even conceive of such a game and then play it and think it’s funny is beyond words.
My first instinct was, 'Of course not.' And I thought about it overnight and I thought, 'You know, that's an interesting proposition,' he's the only artist I could conceive of curating because his masterpieces, all in Canada, are known, they're unknown in America and I happen to have a love of him.
The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
The universe is three times as old as the earth. There's plenty of time for societies to arise that are not just a thousand years more advanced than we are, but they could be a billion years more advanced than we are, so if you ask yourself, ‘What could that kind of a society do?’ There are things they could do that we simply can't conceive of.
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