Definition of Ideative

1. pertaining to ideation [adj] - See also: ideation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideative

ideals
ideaphoria
ideaphorias
idear
ideas
ideasthesia
ideate
ideated
ideates
ideating
ideation
ideational
ideational apraxia
ideationally
ideations
ideative (current term)
idee
idee fixe
idees
idees fixes
idele
ideles
idem
idem sonans
idempotence
idempotency
idempotent
idempotently
idempotents
ident

Literary usage of Ideative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"In choice the power of attention also increases, and when it works upon the memory and the imagination it raises the efficiency of the separate ideative ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... the latter by objective manifestations is to possess the art of knowing how to detect simulation. The disorders in the sphere of ideative or voluntary ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"There is also a special psychic process both ideative and affective which gives rise to the hysterical reaction and its symptoms. ..."

4. The Rational Education of the Will: Its Therapeutic Value by Paul Émile Lévy (1920)
"The principle of ideative auto-suggestion is as follows: to suggest to oneself an idea, and in this way concentrate the attention on it in such a manner ..."

5. The Solar Plexus Or Abdominal Brain by Theron Q. Dumont (1920)
"Moreover, even in the human race, strong feelings and emotions are experienced and manifested by'even those of comparatively undeveloped ideative powers. ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"But the cerebrum may be stimulated, with the result that ideative cognition of the external is induced, the sensation being the material upon which it ..."

7. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"... obsessions (in the narrower sense), phobias being again subdivided into diffuse and special and obsessions into ideative, impulsive and hallucinatory. ..."

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