Definitions for ideation

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

i•de•ateˈaɪ diˌeɪt(v.)-at•ed, -at•ing.

  1. (v.t.)to form an idea, conception, or image of.

  2. (v.i.)to form ideas or images; think.

Origin of ideate:

1600–10

i`de•a′tion(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ideation(noun)

    the process of forming and relating ideas

Wiktionary

  1. ideation(Noun)

    The conceptualization of a mental image.

  2. ideation(Noun)

    The synthesis of ideas.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ideation(noun)

    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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