The word 'preconception' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to ideas or opinions that someone has about something before knowing or considering the facts. For example: My preconception about being a parent was that it would be difficult and stressful, but it has actually been a very rewarding experience.
Haggis says he's fighting daily against the preconception that in the five years since the earthquake shattered Port-au-Prince – killing 220,000, wreaking $14bn in damage, and leaving 1.5 million homeless – Haiti should have been fixed by now.
But it might be time to revise your preconception as London's biggest and newest casino has the gambling joint of old graduated to a centre of entertainment, and this one has turned to art to make its atmosphere new and unique.
The popular preconception is that women of colour don't have eating disorders.
Everyone has a preconception of how a dialect should sound, and at the audition my best efforts were received in embarrassed silence.
For the rest of the world it could prove more than that.Mr Bush himself brings—how to put this politely?—no great burden of preconception about the world's affairs.
In contrast to their heyday in the early 20th century, short stories are mostly viewed as trials or experiments before an author cracks on with the real thing.In this section Notes and noise The good guys were often bad Aesthete and Übermensch In search of happiness ReprintsJohn Burnside, a Scottish poet and novelist, challenges this preconception in his latest collection, "Something Like Happy".
His mind, freed from all preconception, rebelled at the narrowness of the empiricism in which the disciples of Isaac Newton had bound the natural sciences; in dissertations sent to St . Petersburg he attacked the problem of the structure of matter.
Decoupling the preconception that energy bills are rising due to green policies is imperative (Green policies account for 6 per cent of the average gas bill and 11 per cent of electricity bill).
Untidiness Dr Rachel Andrew, a chartered clinical psychologist and teenager expert, believes that the preconception that all teenagers are filthy little toerags living in bedrooms that smell worse that a pigsty is a false one.
While results showed the overwhelmingly positive impact social media had on charities and membership organisations, researchers said there is a misunderstanding of where their audiences are most often found, with the authors finding a preconception that social media is a preserve of the young.
One of the biggest problems is the preconception that scientific career choices are for those who want to go into medicine, believes Marsh.
