different between ideation vs ideate

English

Etymology

From ideate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

ideation (countable and uncountable, plural ideations)

1. The conceptualization of a mental image.
   • 2012, Jerf, comment on Hacker News:

     Natural language is fuzzy mostly because human ideation is fuzzy.

2. (often business) The synthesis of ideas.

Translations

Further reading

• ideation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ideation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• inodiate, iodinate, taenioid

English

Etymology 1

From idea +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?die?t/

Verb

ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated)

1. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
2. To generate an idea.

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Derived terms

Adjective

ideate (not comparable)

1. Produced by an idea.

Etymology 2

Late Latin ideatum. See idea.

Alternative forms

• ideat

Noun

ideate (plural ideates)

1. (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Further reading

• ideate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ideate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Verb

ideate

1. inflection of ideare:
   1. second-person plural indicative present
   2. second-person plural imperative