Lexic.us

Definition of Notion

1. Noun. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed. "I had a feeling that she was lying"

2. Noun. A general inclusive concept.

3. Noun. An odd or fanciful or capricious idea. "Whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

4. Noun. (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items. "Buttons and needles are notions"

Definition of Notion

1. Noun. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. ¹

2. Noun. A sentiment; an opinion. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Sense; mind. Shakespeare. ¹

4. Noun. (colloquial) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack. ¹

5. Noun. Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper. ¹

6. Noun. (colloquial) Inclination; intention; disposition. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Notion

1. a general idea [n -S] : NOTIONAL [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notion

notidanians notif notifiable notifiable disease notification notification area notifications notified notifier notifiers

notifies notifs notify notifying noting notion (current term) notional notional amount notionalities notionality

notionally notionate notionist notionists notions notions counter notist notists notitia notitia criminis

Literary usage of Notion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"There are no great men without virtue, and there are no great nations—it may almost be added that there would be no society—without the notion of rights; ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1862)
"notion OF RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES. No groat people without a notion of rights.— How the notion of rights can l>c given to people. ..."

3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1803)
"clear a notion of .brothers, as of births, and perhaps clearer. ... I had as clear a notion of the relation of brothers between them, as if I had all the ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Hence this Lagrangian notion of derived function, while in general agreeing with the notion of D as limit of difference-quotient, is not yet so universal. ..."

5. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Received notion of some places he certainly adopts.1 Hutcheson, on the other hand, gives a plain definition of the object which this faculty approves. ..."

6. The Essentials of Method: A Discussion of the Essential Form of Right by Charles De Garmo (1892)
"CHAPTER I. THE INDIVIDUAL notion. § 1. ALL mental activity is based upon the results of sense-perception, with which it starts. It is inconceivable that a ..."

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