ideational

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From ideation +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

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

[edit]

Translations

[edit]