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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

Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- +? -logie (equivalent to English ideo- +? -logy). Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?.di.??l.?.d??i/, /?.di.??l.?.d??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?.di???l.?.d??i?/

Noun

ideology (countable and uncountable, plural ideologies)

1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
2. (uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

Usage notes

Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.

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References

Further reading

• "ideology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 153.
• ideology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ideology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• eidology