ideation

[ ahy-dee-ey-shuhn ]

noun

Origin of ideation

First recorded in 1820–30; ideate + -ion

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While these elements are undoubtedly important, writing blog posts that attract the right kind of reader requires careful ideation, optimization, and outreach.
Seven most popular types of blog posts guaranteed to boost traffic | Karl Tablante | November 30, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
Political ideation of the residents also seemed to play a role.
When states mandate masks, fewer people catch COVID-19 | | November 20, 2020 | Popular-Science
We use the same platform to orchestrate this ideation process.
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society | Jason Sparapani | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
This is the story of a failing marriage, yes, but also the account of a cracking consciousness, both in the sense of its literary liveliness and the sense of a mind becoming unmoored and increasingly consumed by suicidal ideation.
Susan Taubes’s recently reissued ‘Divorcing’ is as haunting as ever | Scott Cheshire | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post
This is a process we use in ideation meetings to provide evidence for the strength of a certain content idea.
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Wilcox also said he went through periods of what he calls “suicide ideation.”
Mormon U. Forces Gays to Be Celibate | Emily Shire | May 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
There are two parts to implementing new ideas: coming up with the idea or the ideation phase, and then the execution.
The Best Apps for Developing Sherlock Holmes-Like Reading Skills | Ari Meisel | March 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Twenty-five percent of high schoolers experience suicidal ideation, the Center for Disease Control reports.
Is Suicide Still Shocking? | Michele Willens | January 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is the limited, inhibited conception of sex that vitiates so much of the thought and ideation of the Eugenists.
The Pivot of Civilization | Margaret Sanger
Monotonously feeble, scanty ideation passes readily into seeming brilliance, even to the extent of hallucinations.
Degeneracy | Eugene S. Talbot
Consciousness then ceases to be passive sense or idle ideation and becomes belief and intelligence.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy | George Santayana
The quality of abstraction in such ideation is not very high, it is true, yet it is abstraction, nevertheless.
The Dawn of Reason | James Weir
Alcohol, the juggler with men's thoughts, abruptly pressed upon a new center of ideation in Certina Charley's brain.
The Clarion | Samuel Hopkins Adams

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