IDEATION

ideation

(noun) the process of forming and relating ideas

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ideation (countable and uncountable, plural ideations)

The conceptualization of a mental image.

(often business) The synthesis of ideas.

Anagrams

• inodiate, iodinate, taenioid

Source: Wiktionary


I`de*a"tion, n.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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