notion

n. கருத்து, எண்ணம், உட்கோள், கருத்துப்பாங்கு, தனிக் கோட்பாடு, எண்ணப்போக்கு, தனிப்பட்ட கொள்கை, கோட்பாட்டு விளக்கம், கருத்துச்சாயல், எண்ணச்சார்பு, மலிவான கலைநுட்பம் வாய்ந்த சிற்றணிமணிப்பொருள், (மெய்.) பொருளுலகு பற்றிய பரவலான பொதுக் கருத்துப் படிவம்.

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No"tion, Etym: [L. notio, fr. noscere to know: cf. F. notion. See Know.] 1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc. I. Watts. Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A sentiment; an opinion. The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves. Addison. A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity. J. H. Newman. 3. Sense; mind. [Obs.] Shak. 4. An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions. [Colloq.] 5. Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it. [Colloq.]