ideationn.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 4445 Reality, as a primary Self-revelation or Idea having itself for its Object or Ideation.

1829 J. Mill Anal. Human 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.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 507 In sensation the object of sense is present; in ideation it is absent, but remembered.

1879 T. H. Huxley 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.

1918 J. Ward Psychol. Princ. xii. 299 The generic image (Gemeinbild of German psychologists) constitutes the connecting link between ideation and conception.

1967 Brain 90 146 Performances with the right hemisphere involving word and object association, sorting, retrieval and related tasks showed evidence of ideation, emotion, mental concentration and other high order mental capacities.

2005 A. W. Ulwick What Customers Want viii. 143 With a diverse team of employees engaged in ideation, a company can generate ideas that target opportunities that neither its current products nor those in its pipeline address.

1876 Pop Sci. Monthly May 23 Memories, imaginations, conceptions, are all ideations.

1952 Artibus Asiae 15 231 The paintings we are discussing give the impression of ideations based on intimate acquaintance with the personality of the lotus flowers and birds.

1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Sept. m14 While contemporary anthropology of primitive and foreign..societies is well covered, one misses the possibilities of a dispassionate view of our own ideations of reality.

2006 K. Y. Joshi New Roots in America's Sacred Ground Introd. 13 These Indian roots have been planted in American soil, soil tempered with unique cultural norms and saturated with ideations of God.