no conception of

phrase

: no understanding or awareness of
He has no conception of the problems we have to face.

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The concept of a person who has no conception of the national interest is maybe closer to the mark. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026 The performance is for all audiences, including city kids who have no conception of a rodeo and children in 4-H who are more likely to have attended rodeos, Grant said. — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024 At the moment, there is no conception of replacing a human in demining operations, and people that try to push that eventuality are usually disregarded pretty quickly. — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024 Well, David, the remarkable thing is that most of them don’t even know about 9/11, and many of them have no conception of it or the foggiest notion of it. — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021

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“No conception of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20conception%20of. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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