preconception

A lot of that has to do with clichés and stereotyping through the years, a misinformed preconception of excessive promiscuity.

Even then, it will be important not to read documents and testimony with a preconception of "obvious" intent.

The prevailing conception, however, has been adopted without examination; it is a preconception.

The experiences gained by the Americans in the Civil War helped to confirm this preconception.

Now, in that preconception lies the capital blunder incident to the question.

Not for the truth in them, but for the grace, or because they touched the spring of some preconception or some passion.

He works in a noble freedom from prejudice and preconception, uncorrupted by custom as he is untrammelled by tradition.