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ideation

[ ahy-dee-ey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the process of forming ideas or images.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ideation1

First recorded in 1820–30; ideate + -ion

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Example Sentences

Wilcox also said he went through periods of what he calls “suicide ideation.”

There are two parts to implementing new ideas: coming up with the idea or the ideation phase, and then the execution.

Twenty-five percent of high schoolers experience suicidal ideation, the Center for Disease Control reports.

It is the limited, inhibited conception of sex that vitiates so much of the thought and ideation of the Eugenists.

Monotonously feeble, scanty ideation passes readily into seeming brilliance, even to the extent of hallucinations.

Consciousness then ceases to be passive sense or idle ideation and becomes belief and intelligence.

The quality of abstraction in such ideation is not very high, it is true, yet it is abstraction, nevertheless.

Alcohol, the juggler with men's thoughts, abruptly pressed upon a new center of ideation in Certina Charley's brain.

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