ideational
/ʌɪdɪˈeɪʃən(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
Example Sentences
- "An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its ideational content [translating Vorstellungsinhalt], but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche."
- "Ideational culture, which Sorokin counterposes to the sensate, is generated through more ethereal forms of engagement with the world. Ideational culture also abounds in religious communities."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ideation Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English ideational From ideation + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌɪdɪˈeɪʃən(ə)l/
Derived Forms
Phrases
ideational apraxis