preceptionnoun [ C ]
/prɪˈsep.ʃən//prɪˈsep.ʃən/formala belief or opinion formed before enough information is available to form it correctly:
This programme challenges stereotypes and preceptions of the African continent.
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- Astonishing leaps of intuition lead to daring preceptions about the day-to-day lives of ancient citizens.
- There is a preception that war crime trials are yesterday's problem.
- The change in share price reflects the change in investors' preceptions about the growth of the company in the future.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guesses and assumptions
- a shot in the dark idiom
- approximation
- assumption
- ballpark
- bet
- conjecture
- educated guess
- estimate
- guess
- guesstimate
- overestimate
- preconception
- presumption
- presupposition
- proposition
- propositional
- shot
- supposition
- surmise
- underestimate
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