Synonyms for conceive of
con·ceive of

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1. imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisageverb

   form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

   "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

   Synonyms:
   ideate, opine, guess, reckon, envisage, suppose, imagine, think

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1. • Create By Mental Act

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1. conceive of

   Synonyms:
   have an idea of, form a conception of

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1. Anthony Trollope:

   As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

2. Seth Shostak:

   The universe is three times as old as the earth. There's plenty of time for societies to arise that are not just a thousand years more advanced than we are, but they could be a billion years more advanced than we are, so if you ask yourself, ‘What could that kind of a society do?’ There are things they could do that we simply can't conceive of.

3. Steve Martin:

   My first instinct was, 'Of course not.' And I thought about it overnight and I thought, 'You know, that's an interesting proposition,' he's the only artist I could conceive of curating because his masterpieces, all in Canada, are known, they're unknown in America and I happen to have a love of him.

4. Steven Feldstein:

   These companies, particularly Apple, are really interesting because they have a lot more to lose, particularly given the amount of hardware that they sell in terms of iPhones as well as their manufacturing, i don't know exactly where they're going to end up... short of a lot of public pressure, it's easy to conceive of a scenario where they try to also muddle their way through.

5. Gareth Price:

   When they arrived last time around, it was after a civil war. There was nothing. Now they're inheriting a system of government that, however imperfect, does exist, the question that no one knows the answer to is how The Taliban conceive of government.