Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for notion

The synonym for notion recorded in this bank is whim, in the sense "an odd or fanciful or capricious idea". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for notion

whimnoun, in the sense "an odd or fanciful or capricious idea"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for notion.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

He bought the boat on a sudden notion and regretted it.

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The true synonym

whim

Same sentence, swapped: He bought the boat on a sudden whim and regretted it.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where notion stands in the sentence above.

belief
substance
programme

Where notion turns up in the game

notion is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play notion

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so notion reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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