ideation

IPA: aɪdiˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "ideation" in Sentences

For Hume all ideation is a recombination of sensation.
Management buy-in and support of innovation and ideation is critical.
Suicidal ideation is a symptom of various mental disorders, but only a single symptom.
It is not an idea as we experience ideas, not an object in ideation itself, but the schematic instantiated in an object.
The word "ideation" also shows up in the phrase "suicidal ideation," meaning "thinking, often obsessively, about harming yourself."
The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Whether we are able to recognize the input stream for our ideation is another matter, but accepting that ideas don't emerge without stimulus is a good first step.