2022-11-10
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – I – idea – concept – notion
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง Idea = “ahy-DEE-uh” or “ahy-DEEuh”
ออกเสียง concept = “KON-sept”
ออกเสียง notion = “NOH-shuhn”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Ideal – concept – notion
Any thought existing in the mind
may be called anIdea, concept, or notion.
The most widely used of these words idea,
should be applied to thoughts
that are serious or elaborate:
“The surgeons weighted the idea of an immediate operation.
“The idea of armed conflict is frightening.”
A concept (or conception)
suggests a thought that is complete, detailed, and even intricated:
“The artist’s concept of portrait painting is highly unorthodox.”
A notion is a fleeting, vague, hastily formed, or imperfect thought:
“I had no notion this is what you were planning.”
Recommendation:
use notion for an idea
that has not been pondered and weighted;
use idea or concept for important thoughts
that have been given serious attention.
Occasionally try substituting for idea (the generally used term)
By such words as
opinion, belief, view, conviction,
theory, hypothesis, or whim.
Any word that you use may be as vague as idea,
but you will avoid overworking a threadbare term.
Common Error in English Usage Dictionary:
Idea & Ideal
Any thought can be an idea,
but only the best ideas worth pursuing are ideals
The A-Z of Correct English Common Errors in English Dictionary:
Idea & Ideal
Bristolians have particular difficulty
distinguishing between these two
because of the intrusive Bristol ‘l’.
These exemplar sentences should help:
Your IDEA is brilliant.
This is an IDEAL spot for a picnic.
His IDEALS prevent him from eating meat.
Dictionary.com:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF IDEA
English idea comes from one of Seneca’s Epistles (58),
written about a.d. 64 during his retirement from Emperor Nero’s court,
in which the Roman philosopher uses idea
in the sense of “Platonic idea, eternal archetype.”
Seneca wrote idea in Latin letters;
the Roman orator Cicero, about a hundred years earlier,
wrote the same word, with the same meaning,
but in Greek letters.
Plato used the perfectly ordinary Greek noun idéa
“form, shape” as a term in logic
meaning “classification, principle of classification,”
and in his own metaphysics to mean “ideal form, prototype.”
In fact, the earliest uses of idea in English
show semantic overlap with ideal.
The familiar and current meanings
having to do with a mental conception, notion,
or image first appeared in the late 16th century.
The Greek noun idéa comes from
the very common, very complicated
Proto-Indo-European root weid-, woid-, wid- “to see.”
In Greek the variant woid- forms the verb oîda
(woîda in some dialects), meaning “I know.”
(In form, oîda is a perfect tense used
to show a present state: “I have seen, I know.”)
Woidos, a noun derived from woid-,
becomes veda- “knowledge” in Sanskrit
(Rig-Veda means “knowledge of the hymns, sacred stanzas”).
The variant wid- forms the Greek noun idéa,
and the infinitive ideîn (also wideîn), the Latin infinitive vidēre,
and the Slavic (Czech) vidět, all meaning “to see.”
Weid-, woid-, wid- become wīt-, wait-, wit- in Germanic.
The suffixed form wīt-to- forms the adjective wīsaz,
Old English wīs (English wise),
and Old English wīsdōm “learning” (English wisdom).
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF NOTION
The English noun notion
“general understanding, opinion”
comes from Latin nōtiō (stem nōtiōn-),
a derivative of the verb nōscere “to know” and -tiō,
an abstract noun suffix here denoting a state
(rather than an action).
In the comedies of Plautus,
nōtiō meant “acquaintance (with a person).”
In legal and juridical language,
nōtiō meant “examination, inquiry (by a magistrate).”
The usual meaning of notion
we owe to Cicero, the Roman orator,
statesman, and man of letters,
who created a technical philosophical vocabulary
for Latin almost single-handedly
in order to translate concepts in Greek philosophy.
In his Topica (31),
Cicero explains his usage of nōtiō :
“I mean by notion what the Greeks call énnoia
[‘thinking, reflection, notion, concept’]
or prólēpsis [‘preconception, mental picture’].”
The plural notions
“small articles, such as buttons, thread, ribbon, etc.,
displayed together for sale” was an Americanism
that first appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for idea
IDEA, CONCEPT, CONCEPTION, THOUGHT, NOTION, IMPRESSION
mean what exists in the mind as a representation
(as of something comprehended)
or as a formulation (as of a plan).
IDEA may apply to a mental image
or formulation of something seen or known or imagined,
to a pure abstraction,
or to something assumed or vaguely sensed.
innovative ideas
my idea of paradise
CONCEPT may apply to the idea
formed by consideration of
instances of a species or genus or, more broadly,
to any idea of what a thing ought to be.
a society with no concept of private property
CONCEPTION is often interchangeable with CONCEPT;
it may stress the process of imagining
or formulating rather than the result.
our changing conception of what constitutes art
THOUGHT is likely to suggest
the result of reflecting, reasoning, or meditating
rather than of imagining.
commit your thoughts to paper
NOTION suggests an idea
not much resolved by analysis or reflection
and may suggest the capricious or accidental.
you have the oddest notions
IMPRESSION applies to an idea
or notion resulting immediately from
some stimulation of the senses.
the first impression is of soaring height
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for ideal
Noun
MODEL, EXAMPLE, PATTERN, EXEMPLAR, IDEAL
mean someone or something set before one for guidance or imitation.
MODEL applies to something taken
or proposed as worthy of imitation.
a decor that is a model of good taste
EXAMPLE applies to a person to be imitated
or in some contexts on no account to be imitated
but to be regarded as a warning.
children tend to follow the example of their parents
PATTERN suggests a clear
and detailed archetype or prototype.
American industry set a pattern for others to follow
EXEMPLAR suggests either a faultless example
to be emulated or a perfect typification.
cited Joan of Arc as the exemplar of courage
IDEAL implies the best possible exemplification
either in reality or in conception.
never found a job that matched his ideal
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for concept
Noun
IDEA, CONCEPT, CONCEPTION, THOUGHT, NOTION, IMPRESSION
mean what exists in the mind as a representation
(as of something comprehended)
or as a formulation (as of a plan).
IDEA may apply to a mental image
or formulation of something seen
or known or imagined, to a pure abstraction,
or to something assumed or vaguely sensed.
innovative ideas
my idea of paradise
CONCEPT may apply to the idea
formed by consideration of instances
of a species or genus or, more broadly,
to any idea of what a thing ought to be.
a society with no concept of private property
CONCEPTION is often interchangeable with CONCEPT;
it may stress the process of imagining
or formulating rather than the result.
our changing conception of what constitutes art
THOUGHT is likely to suggest the result
of reflecting, reasoning, or meditating
rather than of imagining.
commit your thoughts to paper
NOTION suggests an idea not much resolved
by analysis or reflection and may suggest
the capricious or accidental.
you have the oddest notions
IMPRESSION applies to an idea or notion
resulting immediately from some stimulation of the senses.
the first impression is of soaring height
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for notion
IDEA, CONCEPT, CONCEPTION, THOUGHT, NOTION, IMPRESSION mean what exists in the mind as a representation
(as of something comprehended)
or as a formulation (as of a plan).
IDEA may apply to a mental image
or formulation of something seen
or known or imagined, to a pure abstraction,
or to something assumed or vaguely sensed.
innovative ideas
my idea of paradise
CONCEPT may apply to the idea
formed by consideration of instances of
a species or genus or, more broadly,
to any idea of what a thing ought to be.
a society with no concept of private property
CONCEPTION is often interchangeable with CONCEPT;
it may stress the process of imagining
or formulating rather than the result.
our changing conception of what constitutes art
THOUGHT is likely to suggest the result
of reflecting, reasoning, or meditating
rather than of imagining.
commit your thoughts to paper
NOTION suggests an idea not much resolved
by analysis or reflection and may suggest
the capricious or accidental.
you have the oddest notions
IMPRESSION applies to an idea or notion
resulting immediately from some stimulation of the senses.
the first impression is of soaring height
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Words at play
Concept
Concept [verb]: to conceive; especially:
to create the initial idea for a design, product, or story
If you'd rather avoid it:
Conceive; create the concept
Jargon can seem forced or artificial
if you’re not part of the group that uses a given term,
especially if the term seems redundant or unnecessary.
Concepting is a fancy way of saying conceiving.
It's particularly seen in creative professions and marketing,
where the noun form of concept gets thrown around a lot.
There is some history to concept's use as a verb,
though it has always been rare in English.
Most evidence dates to the 1600s,
when it was used as a synonym for conceive.
Conceive had been in use for centuries by that time,
but the spelling of concept shows a closer relationship
to the ultimate Latin root of both words, concipere,
which appealed to pedants
who wanted to make the Latin elements in English
as transparent as possible.
This doesn't make concepting any more transparent
for readers today.
After all, which sounds better:
"From the concepting stage" or "from conception"?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Usage Notes
On 'Idyll' and 'Ideal'
Both might describe your country getaway, but in different ways
What to Know
Idyll refers to a work of prose
that describes rustic or pastoral scenes.
This is different from the adjective ideal
whose meaning ranges from "perfectly suitable"
to "exemplifying a standard of perfection."
From "idyll" we get "idyllic"
which means "pleasing in its natural simplicity"
and for some idyllic scenes are ideal.
When something is described as idyllic,
it’s pleasing in its natural simplicity,
much like a pastoral scene.
Idyll and Idyllic Meaning
Idyllic is based on the noun idyll,
which is a short work of poetry or
prose that describes rustic life or pastoral scenes,
or it can be a narrative poem that treats
an epic, romantic, or tragic theme.
The latter sense applies in the title of
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King,
a retelling of the King Arthur
legend by way of a collection of twelve poems.
Ideal Meaning
Idyll sounds very much like our more common adjective ideal,
which is related to the noun idea.
Something that is ideal is perfectly suitable,
or it literally adheres to the idea of what is beautiful or excellent.
Ideal can also be a noun
for anything that exemplifies a standard of
perfection, beauty, or excellence:
Usage Together
Maybe due to the fact that
people often find rustic or pastoral scenes very desirable
in their simplicity, one might, on occasion,
be tempted to confuse idyll with ideal.
But the confusion doesn’t show up frequently in these words.
Sometimes, however,
an author might juxtapose them,
creating the impression that they are related:
Perhaps more revealing is the occasionally seen
use of the mashup adjective idealic to echo idyllic,
with a meaning that in some instances approach “ideal”
but in others “suggestive of an idyll.”
Sometimes what might have been uttered
as idyllic gets transcribed as idealic:
The writers here are almost certainly thinking of idyllic
but are probably influenced by the notion that
the romance or vacation in question
meets one’s idea of a perfect example of those things.
A more common adjective
related to ideal is idealistic,
which means
“pertaining to one who is guided
by ideals often at the expense of practical considerations,”
and which describes us
when we imagine everyone on the Internet
living in idyllic harmony after reading our usage advice.
