Word Meanings - MANIFOLDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A generalized concept of magnitude. (more info) 1. Multiplicity. Sherwood.

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• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• CONCEPTACLE
  1. That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. Woodward. A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles. One of the cases containing
• CONCEPTIVE
  Capable of conceiving. Sir T. Browne
• CONCEPTIBLE
  Capable of being conceived; conceivable. Sir M. Hale.
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• MULTIPLICITY
  The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. "A multiplicity of goods." South.
• MAGNITUDE
  That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.
• GENERALIZE
  1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the
• CONCEPTUALISM
  A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.
• GENERALIZATION
  1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2.
• CONCEPTIBILITY
  The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth.
• GENERALIZER
  One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.
• CONCEPTUAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• CONCEPTUALIST
  One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.
• CONCEPTIOUS
  Apt to conceive; fruitful. Shak.
• CONCEPTION
  1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16. 2. The state of being conceived; beginning. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak. 3.
• CONCEPT
  An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PRECONCEPTION
  The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
• INCONCEPTIBLE
  Inconceivable. Sir M. Hale.
• MISCONCEPTION
  Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.