conceptual

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin conceptuālis, from Latin conceptus, perfect passive participle of concipiō (“take hold of; conceive”); see concept and -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛp.tjʊəl/, /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃu.əl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kənˈsep.t͡ʃʉ.əl/

Adjective

conceptual (comparative more conceptual, superlative most conceptual)

1. Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.

2. Existing only in the imagination.

   We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.

3. Of or relating to conceptualism.

Synonyms

• (of a concept): ideal, notional
• (imaginary): ideal, imaginary, notional

Derived terms

• aconceptual
• anticonceptual
• biconceptual
• conceptual analysis
• conceptual art
• conceptual definition
• conceptual engineering
• conceptual fallacy
• conceptual graph
• conceptual inverse
• conceptualism
• conceptualist
• conceptuality
• conceptualization
• conceptualize
• conceptually
• conceptual metaphor
• conceptual network
• conceptual physics
• conceptual schema
• metaconceptual
• multiconceptual
• neoconceptual
• nonconceptual
• periconceptual
• photoconceptual
• postconceptual
• preconceptual
• subconceptual
• uniconceptual

 

Related terms

• concept
• conceptualism

Descendants

• German: konzeptuell

Translations

of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination

• Belarusian: канцэптуа́льны (kanceptuálʹny)
• Bulgarian: умозрителен (bg) (umozritelen)
• Catalan: conceptual (ca)
• Danish: konceptuel
• Dutch: conceptueel (nl)
• Finnish: käsite-, käsitteellinen (fi), ajatuksellinen, konsepti-, konseptuaalinen
• French: conceptuel (fr)
• Galician: conceptual (gl)
• German: konzeptionell (de)
• Greek: εννοιολογικός (el) (ennoiologikós)
• Hungarian: fogalmi (hu)
• Japanese: 概念的 (gainenteki)
• Latvian: jēdzienisks, konceptuāls
• Portuguese: conceitual, conceptual (Brazil, Portugal), concetual (Portugal)
• Russian: концептуа́льный (ru) (konceptuálʹnyj)
• Spanish: conceptual (es)
• Swedish: konceptuell (sv), begreppsmässig (sv), begreppslig
• Tagalog: dalumatin
• Ukrainian: концептуа́льний (konceptuálʹnyj)
• Yiddish: באַגריפֿיק (bagrifik)

of, or relating to conceptualism

• Catalan: conceptual (ca)
• Finnish: konseptualistinen
• Greek: εννοιοκρατικός (el) (ennoiokratikós)
• Latvian: konceptuāls
• Polish: konceptualny (pl)
• Portuguese: conceitual, conceptual (Brazil, Portugal), concetual (Portugal)
• Tagalog: dalumatin
• Ukrainian: концептуа́льний (konceptuálʹnyj)

Further reading

• “conceptual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “conceptual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.səp.tuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.səp.tuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.sep.tuˈal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

conceptual m or f (masculine and feminine plural conceptuals)

1. conceptual

Derived terms

• conceptualisme
• conceptualista
• conceptualitzar

Related terms

• concepte

Further reading

• “conceptual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Adjective

conceptual m or f (plural conceptuais)

1. conceptual

Derived terms

• conceptualmente

Related terms

• concepto

Further reading

• “conceptual”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Portuguese

Adjective

conceptual m or f (plural conceptuais) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, European Portuguese spelling)

1. Alternative form of concetual (“conceptual”)

Derived terms

• conceptualmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French conceptuel. By surface analysis, concept +‎ -ual.

Adjective

conceptual m or n (feminine singular conceptuală, masculine plural conceptuali, feminine and neuter plural conceptuale)

1. conceptual

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	conceptual		conceptuală		conceptuali	conceptuale
	definite	conceptualul		conceptuala		conceptualii	conceptualele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	conceptual		conceptuale		conceptuali	conceptuale
	definite	conceptualului		conceptualei		conceptualilor	conceptualelor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin conceptuālis, from conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /konθebˈtwal/ [kõn̟.θeβ̞ˈt̪wal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /konsebˈtwal/ [kõn.seβ̞ˈt̪wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: con‧cep‧tual

Adjective

conceptual m or f (masculine and feminine plural conceptuales)

1. conceptual

Derived terms

• conceptualismo
• conceptualista
• conceptualizar
• conceptualmente

 

Related terms

• concepto

 

Further reading

• “conceptual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28