Other forms: notions
A notion is a loose idea or belief held in the mind. The notion that, a vague notion, get the notion.
It is weaker than a concept and less examined than a theory, and it often carries a hint that the idea is not well founded: the notion that hard work is always rewarded. Have no notion means to have no idea at all. Take a notion to do something means to decide on it suddenly. Note that in American English notions is also an old shop word for sewing supplies.
1nounnotionA loose idea or belief held in the mind.
“The notion that it would be quick was wrong from the start.”
notion is an idea.
Also accepted in games: concept
Latin notio means a becoming acquainted or an idea, from noscere, to know — the same root as notice, note and notorious. A notion is what you have when you have got to know something a little.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵneh₃-
Latin
nōtiō — a becoming acquainted, a taking cognizance, an examination, an investigation, a conception, idea, notion
English, today
notion
Built from
From Latin nōtiō (“a becoming acquainted, a taking cognizance, an examination, an investigation, a conception, idea, notion”), from nōscō (“to know”). Compare French notion. See know.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA