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conceivability

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con⋅ceiv⋅a⋅ble

  [kuhn-see-vuh-buhl]
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–adjective
capable of being conceived; imaginable.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME. See conceive, -able

Related forms:
con⋅ceiv⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, con⋅ceiv⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
con⋅ceiv⋅a⋅bly, adverb
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con·ceive   (kən-sēv')   
v.   con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives

v.   tr.

  1. To become pregnant with (offspring).

  2. To form or develop in the mind; devise: conceive a plan to increase profits.

  3. To apprehend mentally; understand: couldn't conceive the meaning of that sentence.

  4. To be of the opinion that; think: didn't conceive such a tragedy could occur.

  5. To begin or originate in a specific way: a political movement conceived in the ferment of the 1960s.

v.   intr.

  1. To form or hold an idea: Ancient peoples conceived of the earth as flat.

  2. To become pregnant.


[Middle English conceiven, from Old French concevoir, conceiv-, from Latin concipere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]
con·ceiv'a·bil'i·ty, con·ceiv'a·ble·ness n., con·ceiv'a·ble adj., con·ceiv'a·bly adv., con·ceiv'er n.
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