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ideation|aɪdiːˈeɪʃən|
[f. ideate v.: see -ation.]
The formation of ideas or mental images of things not present to the senses.
1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind I. 42 As we say Sensation, we might also say Ideation; it would be a very useful word... Sensation is the general name for one part of our constitution.. Ideation for another. 1862Macm. Mag. Apr. 507 In sensation the object of sense is present; in ideation it is absent, but remembered. 1879Huxley Hume iv. 90 Of the mechanism of this generation of images of impressions or ideas (in Hume's sense), which may be termed Ideation, we know nothing. |