ideational

English

Etymology

From ideation +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌɪdɪˈeɪʃən(ə)l/

Adjective

ideational (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
   • 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 61:

     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.

   • 2004, John P. Bartkowski, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men, page 42:

     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.

Derived terms

• ideationally
• ideational apraxis