All preconception synonyms
pre·con·cep·tion
P p noun preconception
- xenophobia — fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers: Xenophobia and nationalism can be seen as a reaction to the rise of globalization.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- foresight — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- onesidedness — The property of being onesided.
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- discreetness — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- anticipation — Anticipation is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- foretaste — a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
- inexactness — The characteristic or quality of being inexact; a lack of precision, accuracy, or certainty.
- contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- in sight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
- elusion — The act of eluding.
- high hopes — great expectations
- bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
- canniness — the quality of being canny
- illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
- headset — Radio, Telephony. a device consisting of one or two earphones with a headband for holding them over the ears and sometimes with a mouthpiece attached.
- invalidity — invalidism.
verb preconception
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.