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 recognizing or the condition of being recognized

He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition ; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

an awareness that something observed has been observed before

acceptance as valid or true

The law was a recognition of their civil rights.

*

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country

honour, favourable note, or attention

The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.