Crossword clues for ideation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated .
. . all enter now into the process of ideation.
--J. D.
Morell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829; see idea + -ation. Related: Ideational.\n\nAs we say Sensation, we might say also, Ideation; it would be a very useful word; and there is no objection to it, except the pedantic habit of decrying a new term.
[James Mill, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," London, 1829]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The conceptualization of a mental image. 2 (context often business English) The synthesis of idea#Englishs.
WordNet
n. the process of forming and relating ideas
Wikipedia
Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract. Ideation comprises all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization. As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice.
Ideation may refer to:
- Ideation (creative process), the process of creating new ideas
- Suicidal ideation, a common medical term for thoughts about suicide
- Paranoid ideation, a symptom of schizophrenia and several other mental disorders
Usage examples of "ideation".
Kate Gompert was on Specials, which meant Suicide-Watch, which meant that the girl had at some point betrayed both Ideation and Intent, which meant she had to be watched right up close by a staffer twenty-four hours a day until the supervising M.
A resident at Ennet had hung herself from a heating pipe in the basement a couple years before Gately arrived, and there are now baroque procedures for monitoring ideation among residents with psych issues.
Still, falling into a five-year depression as an adult where I was sleeping an average of eighteen hours a day, struggling with suicidal ideation, unable to work during four of those years, and then dealing with the memory loss and confusion resulting from twenty-one electroshock treatments was the highlight of my struggles.
As a result of such practice there arises a nonconceptual sense that nothing can harm the mind, regardless of whether or not ideation has ceased.
With sustained practice, without ever suppressing ideation, the mind becomes still and conceptual dispersion ceases of its own accord.
Following each session of contemplation, whatever ideation arises, one repeatedly lets it appear and vanish of its own accord, without grasping onto it or its intentional object.
Indian tongue, misled by ignorance of the vague prescriptorial ideation, and perhaps deceived by crafty native informants or mischievous interpreters, came to adopt and perpetuate the erroneous interpretation.
So it's an up-by-his-bootstrap situation, a self-causing situationthen truly it is ex nihilo (no wonder there was no ideation!