Adaptation | Advancement |
Adventure | Algorithm |
Architecture | Art |
Artificial Intelligence | Assumptions |
Authenticity | Automation |
Bravery | Business |
Cause | Change |
Chaos | Civility |
Communication | Competition |
Constraints | Contract |
Control | Coolness |
Cuisine | Culture |
Dance | Design |
Development | Difficult |
Digital | Easy |
Economy | Education |
Effect | Empathy |
Ethics | Experiment |
Fact | Failure |
Fairness | Family |
Freedom | Friend |
Future | Game |
Government | Groupthink |
Happiness | Humility |
Idealism | Imagination |
Improvisation | Infinity |
Influence | Infrastructure |
Insanity | Intangible |
Intuition | Joy |
Justice | Law |
Leadership | Love |
Magic | Management |
Marketing | Meaning |
Measurement | Media |
Military | Money |
Motivation | Music |
Optimism | Past |
Pessimism | Philosophy |
Play | Pragmatic |
Principles | Privacy |
Problem | Product |
Productivity | Quality |
Random | Realism |
Reality | Resilience |
Rights | Risk |
Rule | Safety |
Sales | Sanity |
Science | Self-Fulfillment |
Service | Society |
Software | Sport |
Stability | Story |
Strategy | Student |
Style | System |
Talent | Tangible |
Teacher | Technology |
Theory | Thought |
Time | Truth |
Universe | Values |
Virtual | Win |
Wonder | Work |
Abstractions
Abstractions are words, thoughts and visualizations that don't have a physical manifestation. For example, joy is a real thing that exists as part of the human experience but doesn't exist as a physical object. All abstractions are concepts.
Generalizations
A generalization is a concept based on common properties of things. For example, the word tree is a general term for trillions of plants that have properties in common such as a trunk, branches and leaves.
Concrete Nouns
Language is mostly conceptual such that most words are concepts that correspond to abstractions and generalizations. Not all language is conceptual such as proper names of people and places and concrete nouns that describe physical things. For example, the word tree is conceptual when you are talking about a non-specific tree as in the example below.Trees breathe oxygen.
Tree can also be a concrete noun that refers to a specific physical plant as in this example:Their tree fell on their house in the storm.
Visual Thinking
The concepts above are all based on language. It is also possible for a concept to be visual. For example, color symbolism whereby a color invokes meaning and emotion.
Overview
Concepts are either generalizations about physical things such as "chair" or ideas that do not correspond to a specific physical thing such as "freedom."
Counterexamples
The majority of words in English are concepts such that it is generally more difficult to identify words that aren't concepts. The following are common counterexamples of concepts.
| Summary: Concepts | ||
Type | ||
Definition | An abstract idea or generalization. | |
Similar Terms | ConceptualAbstractIntangibleGeneralizationConstructInvention | |
Antonyms | ConcretePhysicalSubstantiveMeasurable | |
Related Concepts | ||
