Usually means: Assumptions formed before actual experience.
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  1. preconceptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. preconceptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. preconceptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Preconceptions, preconceptions: Wordnik
  5. preconceptions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. preconceptions: Wiktionary
  7. preconceptions: Dictionary.com
  8. preconceptions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. preconceptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. preconceptions: Legal dictionary

(Note: See preconception as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (preconception)

noun:  An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.
noun:  A prejudice that prevents rational consideration of an issue.
adjective:  (medicine) Preconceptional.
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