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ideˈational, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to ideation or the formation of ideas.
1853Carpenter Hum. Phys. (ed. 4) xiv. §788. 779 That state of consciousness which may be termed Ideational. Ibid. Note, If the use of the substantive Ideation be admitted, there can be no reasonable objection to the adjective ideational. 1879Huxley Hume iv. 90 The rapidity and the intensity of this ideational process are..dependent upon physiological conditions. 1894Creighton & Titchener tr. Wundt's Lect. Hum. & Animal Psychol. xiii. 204 In both cases we are only dealing with a particular consequence of the principle of ideational unity. 1916Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. II. 631 Despite widespread interest in the evolution of reasoning, the comparative study of ideational behaviour has been neglected. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 515/1 These regulators..are apprehended by, for instance, consciousness as ‘archaic images’ or ‘ideational instincts’. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Oct. 144 The technique might differentiate more clearly for response style than for ideational content. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxxv. 489 It has also been called the ‘area of ideational speech’ or indeed ‘word store’.
2. Sociol. A term used orig. by P. A. Sorokin (see quot. 1937) to describe a type of culture based on spiritual values and ideals, whose material needs are the minimum necessary to forward those ideals. (See also idealistic a. 2 and sensate a.)
1937P. A. Sorokin Social & Cultural Dynamics I. i. ii. 67 Of these two systems one may be termed Ideational culture, the other Sensate. Ibid. 68 Some [cultures] have contained a balanced synthesis of both pure types. This last I term the Idealistic type of culture. (It should not be confused with the Ideational.) 1944H. P. Fairchild Dict. Sociol. 148 Ideational,..a type of culture which exalts the spiritual above the material values. 1964Economist 8 Aug. 563/1 Conservatism is not, like socialism, liberalism or democracy, an ‘ideational’ ideology but ‘situational’. 1966P. A. Sorokin Sociol. Theories Today xi. 381 The phase of growth or ‘spring’ of Danilevsky–Spengler–Toynbee's civilizations is similar in several traits with Sorokin's ideational. 1970G. A. & A. G. Theodorson Mod. Dict. Sociol. 194 Rather than stressing the manipulation of the empirical world to improve the quality of life..the ideational culture emphasizes adjustment to the existing world. |