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Preconceived notion   /prˌikənsˈivd nˈoʊʃən/   Listen
Preconceived notion

noun
1.
An opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.  Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived opinion, preconception, prepossession.






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"Preconceived notion" Quotes from Famous Books



... girls may be more nearly identical than in later life. A large part of the differentiation in the work and play of little boys and girls would seem to be quite artificial. We give dolls to girls and drums to boys, but only because of some preconceived notion of our own. The girls will drum as loudly and the boys care for the baby quite as tenderly, until some one ridicules them and they learn to simulate a scorn for "boys' things" and "girls' things" which ...
— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson

... behind her, and turned, expecting to see the gardener, accompanied by the engineer from Dorchester. But only one figure was in sight, that of a youngish, slightly built man, who, for reasons she could not on the spot have specified, did not remotely resemble her preconceived notion of an authority on hot-house boilers. The new-comer, on seeing her, lifted his hat, and paused with the air of a gentleman—perhaps a traveler—desirous of having it immediately known that his intrusion ...
— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton



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