'Ideation' definitions:
Definition of 'ideation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The process of forming and relating ideas
Definition of 'Ideation'
From: GCIDE
- Ideation \I`de*a"tion\, 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. [1913 Webster]
- The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. --J. D. Morell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ideation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract thought,
- act of thought,
- apprehension,
- brainwork,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- cerebration,
- clairvoyance,
- cogitation,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conceit,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- creative thought,
- deductive power,
- esemplastic power,
- excogitation,
- foreknowledge,
- grasp,
- grip,
- headwork,
- heavy thinking,
- idea,
- imageless thought,
- integrative power,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual exercise,
- intellectual grasp,
- intellectual power,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- intellectualization,
- intelligence,
- intelligence quotient,
- IQ,
- knowledge,
- mastery,
- mental act,
- mental age,
- mental capacity,
- mental grasp,
- mental labor,
- mental process,
- mental ratio,
- mentality,
- mentation,
- mother wit,
- native wit,
- noesis,
- power of mind,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- ratiocination,
- rationality,
- reasoning,
- reasoning power,
- sanity,
- savvy,
- scope of mind,
- sense,
- straight thinking,
- thinking,
- thinking aloud,
- thinking out,
- thinking power,
- thought,
- understanding,
- wisdom,
- wit