धारणा in English:

Tom had no conception of what fatherhood entailed.

I have only a general conception about how a computer works.

Immaculate conception simply means that the Virgin Mary herself was born without original sin. Virgin birth is how Christ came about.

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.