different between ideational vs ideate

English

Etymology

From ideation +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??e???n(?)l/

Adjective

ideational (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 61:

     An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its ideational content [transl. Vorstellungsinhalt], but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.

   • 2004, John P. Bartkowski, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men (page 42)

     Ideational culture, which Sorokin counterposes to the sensate, is generated through more ethereal forms of engagement with the world. Ideational culture also abounds in religious communities.

Derived terms

• ideationally
• ideational apraxis

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.

Translations

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