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conceptually

[ kuhn-sep-choo-uh-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that pertains to concepts, ideas, theories, mental constructs or models, etc.:

    While web development is easy to describe conceptually, implementation involves an overwhelming array of languages, platforms, and templates.

  2. in a way that pertains to design or creative vision:

    Your donation page should feel aesthetically and conceptually in line with the rest of your organization's online presence.



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Other Words From

  • non·con·cep·tu·al·ly adverb
  • un·con·cep·tu·al·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

Conceptually, the “Angel of Death” was a cultural mainstay in continental Europe and the British Isles by the late Middle Ages.

In France, he frequented the Surrealists, conceptually drawing from their principles of visual subversion.

Instead, busing was a failure—conceptually and substantively—because of faulty liberal assumptions.

“With Bar Ama, what I wanted to do, conceptually, was to take the ideas around Tex-Mex and make them my own,” he said.

He says the project is not about the end product itself, but about breaking another boundary, conceptually.

Whatever a dozen men may agree on conceptually, will be differently thought of by any one woman.

Any concept can comprehend conceptually only one object, not another object together with this.

The aggregate of similar experiences, hence of experiences conceptually generalized, we shall call things.

We need not regard them conceptually as unchangeable or irreplaceable.

That is, it is felt as repeated and conceptually comprehended.

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