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Definition of Ideate
1. Verb. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case. "Did he ideate his major works over a short period of time?"; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"
Generic synonyms: Create By Mental Act, Create Mentally
Specialized synonyms: Envision, Fancy, Figure, Image, Picture, Project, See, Visualise, Visualize, Visualise, Visualize, Envision, Foresee, Fantasise, Fantasize, Prefigure, Think, Fantasise, Fantasize, Fantasy, Daydream, Dream, Stargaze, Woolgather
Derivative terms: Idea, Ideation, Imagination, Imagination, Imaginative
Definition of Ideate
1. v. t. To form in idea; to fancy.
Definition of Ideate
1. Verb. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. ¹
2. Verb. To generate an idea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ideate
1. to form an idea [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Ideate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideate
Literary usage of Ideate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Psychology by David R. Major (1914)
"The terms idea and ideate are frequently used as the equivalents of thought and
think, in the present meaning of the two latter terms. ..."
2. The Psychology of Learning: An Experimental Investigation of the Economy and by Ernst Meumann, John Wallace Baird (1913)
"If he belongs to the pure visual type, his ideational type corresponds to the
sort of sensory material with which he is to deal; and he will ideate it by ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"In certain mental diseases the patient can perceive but he cannot ideate.
In others he can ideate but not perceive. Clinical cases point to the qualitative ..."
4. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"We ' have consciousness' when we sense or ideate. ... To sense ' and ' to ideate '
mean the same as 1 to have sensations,' and ' to have ideas,' but if we ..."
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