Word Meanings - NOTIONALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A notional or groundless opinion. Glanvill.

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• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• NOTIONALITY
  A notional or groundless opinion. Glanvill.
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• OPINIONED
  Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.
• NOTIONAL
  1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. Discourses of speculative and notional things. Evelyn. 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
• NOTIONALLY
  In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• PREOPINION
  Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.
• SELF-OPINIONED
  Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.
• DISOPINION
  Want or difference of belief; disbelief. Bp. Reynolds.
• MISOPINION
  Wrong opinion.