association of ideas
Example Sentences
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In her choreographic explorations, she is led by the free association of ideas rather than by Odissi’s familiar stories — many drawn from the 12th-century “Gita Govinda,” which recounts the love between Radha and Krishna.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
This does come back to Locke again, and Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which is about the association of ideas.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2016
From this “unhappy association of ideas which have no connection in nature,” his mother could never again hear a clock wound up without “thinking of something else,” and vice versa.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
It was sound psychology, a natural association of ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose it is some association of ideas that makes those dead places in a journey.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
