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ideate

Noun, Verb (usu participle)

i=de=ate

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ideate(v = verb.creation) conceive of, envisage, imagine - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

is one way to create by mental act, create mentally

Derived forms noun idea₁, noun ideation₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

ideate, n. [LL. ideatum. See Idea.].

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. [1913 Webster]

ideate, v. t.

To form in idea; to fancy. [1913 Webster]
"The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God." [1913 Webster]
To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. [1913 Webster]

ideate, v. Psychol.
1 tr. imagine, conceive.
2 intr. form ideas.

Derivative

ideation n. ideational adj. ideationally adv.

Etymology

med.L ideare form an idea (as IDEA)

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