Thesaurus: ideation
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.
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- n. 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.
- n. the process of forming and relating ideas
- 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.
- The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; theexercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects ofsense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enternow into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.
- n:100 n. the process of forming and relating ideas