Noun

(en noun)

Mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.

* (George Cheyne) (1671-1743)

Few agree in their notions about these words.

* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.

* (Alexander Hamilton) (ca.1756-1804)

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.

A sentiment; an opinion.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.

* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)

A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke

(label) Sense; mind. Shakespeare.

(label) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.

(label) Inclination; intention; disposition.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes

(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.

The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.

(philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word

(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol

(semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary

(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics

(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.