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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

ideation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ideations)

1. The conceptualization of a mental image.

   suicidal ideation

   • 2012, Jerf, comment on Hacker News:

     Natural language is fuzzy mostly because human ideation is fuzzy.

   • May 30, 2023, Judge Robert L. Hinkle, Doe v. ladapo, Case No. 4:23cv114-RH-MAF, Federal District Court, Northern District of Florida:

     And there are risks [to transgender children] to not using these [hormone therapy] treatments, including the risk - in some cases, the near certainty - of anxiety and depression and even suicidal ideation.

2. (often business) The synthesis of ideas.

派生語

• suicidal ideation

Further reading

• “ideation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ideation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• inodiate, iodinate, taenioid