ideational
Americanadjective
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“My doctoral thesis happens to be on one of the ideational foundations of American society, the rebbe of the Founding Fathers”—John Locke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Disgust was unlike the other three responses in one peculiar fashion: It could be motivated primarily by ideational factors — by what a person knew, or thought she knew, about the object at hand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
In 1712, Joseph Addison assumed his readers were acquainted with the “great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy” regarding the ideational nature of perception.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
Yigal Amir may have acted alone, as he told police, but he had many ideational conspirators.
From Time Magazine Archive
The law of benign stupor is a limitation of energy, emotion and ideational content.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
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