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