Capable of conceiving or forming ideas; relating to the power of conception or understanding.
From Latin conceptivus, formed from concipere (to conceive) with the suffix -ive meaning having the quality of. This philosophical term emerged in medieval scholastic writing to describe the mental faculty.
Medieval scholars separated 'conceptive' power (your ability to form ideas) from 'imaginative' power (seeing mental pictures), thinking the brain had different tools for different kinds of thinking.
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