Concept vs. Idea

Conceptnoun

abstract and general idea; an abstraction

Conceptnoun

understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

Conceptnoun

(programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Conceptnoun

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

Conceptnoun

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Conceptnoun

an abstract idea

Conceptnoun

a plan or intention

Conceptnoun

an idea or invention to help sell or publicize a commodity

Conceptnoun

(of a car or other vehicle) produced as an experimental model to test the viability of innovative design features

Conceptnoun

an idea or mental image which corresponds to some distinct entity or class of entities, or to its essential features, or determines the application of a term (especially a predicate), and thus plays a part in the use of reason or language.

Concept

Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

Ideanoun

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

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(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

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An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

Ideanoun

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

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A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.

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A purposeful aim or goal; intent

Ideanoun

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.

Ideanoun

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Ideanoun

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Ideanoun

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

Ideanoun

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

Ideanoun

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

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A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

Ideanoun

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

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A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

Ideanoun

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;

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a personal view;

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an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;

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your intention; what you intend to do;

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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;

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a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action

Ideanoun

a mental impression

Ideanoun

an opinion or belief

Ideanoun

the aim or purpose

Ideanoun

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

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(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.