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superconception

superconception noun: superfetation.

Noun

superconception (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) superfetation
    • those superconceptions, where one child was like the father, the other like the adulterer1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of superconception

From super- + conception.

Questions about superconception

What does superconception mean?
Superconception means superfetation.
What part of speech is superconception?
Superconception is a noun.

Words near superconception in the dictionary

  1. superconcentrates
  2. superconcentration
  3. superconcentrations
  4. superconcentrator
  5. superconcentrators
  6. superconception
  7. superconcert
  8. superconcerts
  9. supercondensation
  10. supercondensations
  11. supercondensed

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