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Webster 1913 Edition
Ideation
Iˊde-a′tion
,Noun.
The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.
The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of
ideation
. J. D. Morell.
Definition 2024
ideation
ideation
English
Noun
ideation (countable and uncountable, plural ideations)
- The conceptualization of a mental image.
- 2012, Jerf, comment on Hacker News:
- Natural language is fuzzy mostly because human ideation is fuzzy.
- 2012, Jerf, comment on Hacker News:
- (often business) The synthesis of ideas.
Translations
synthesis of ideas
External links
- ideation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ideation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911