notion - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • citizenship: In Sweden, multiculturalism has meant taking a holistic look at notions of citizenship.
  • equivalence: The idea of sacrifice then has its roots in these crude notions of equivalence.
  • identity: Critically, what does this mean for the English and english notions of identity?
  • Britishness: This notion of Britishness is more important than ever in the new context of globalization.
  • objectivity: I realized that the notion of journalistic objectivity was completely redundant in a situation like that where you had to take sides.
  • rationality: Magda Osman discusses deception in terms of general notions of rationality.

Converse of object

  • preconceive: We will not go into this with ironclad, preconceived notions.
  • reject: He rejected any notion that the Red Platform is ' the problem ' in the CPGB.
  • dispel: At this point let me dispel the notion that counseling is all about Freud, couches and is only for certain types of people!
  • reinforce: The economic approach focuses purely on monetary value and may be damaging if it reinforces the notion that volunteering is all about saving money.
  • entertain: He gives Emma just enough encouragement for her to entertain the notion of becoming his assistant for a new act.
  • dismiss: From roadside glimpses so far, I'd dismissed all horror-film notions of vodou.

Adjective modifier

  • vague: For, they concede, the Church does after all bring in some kind of vague notion of God and a Supreme Being.
  • romantic: I adore old French films, and that really romantic notion of music aching and breaking hearts all over a film.
  • mistaken: People have the mistaken notion that business is sales minus costs and expenses is equal to profit.
  • ridiculous: Sergeant Wilkie replied that she thought the whole thing made her look like a boy, which was a ridiculous notion.
  • absurd: Mr Square, a sensible sort, did not believe in the absurd notion of the third dimension.
  • conventional: Opposes the conventional notion that Hardy is a pessimistic thinker.

Noun used with modifier

  • commonsense: Naive realism maintained the commonsense notion that physical objects existed independently of the senses.
  • naive: They built on kids ' naïve notions of biology in just the way that psychologists would say you should do.

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