1. not involving or based on concepts or abstract ideas
Usage: philosophy; psychology

Examples

• The artist’s nonconceptual approach focused purely on color and form.
• Meditation aims to achieve a nonconceptual awareness of the present moment.
• The philosopher argued for nonconceptual content in perception.
• Her nonconceptual understanding came through direct experience rather than theory.
• The therapy emphasized nonconceptual healing through movement and breath.
• Scientists studied nonconceptual processing in early infant development.