An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
The act of conceiving.
The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
The state of being conceived; the beginning.
The start of pregnancy.
The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.