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ideational

[ahy-dee-ey-shuh-nl] / ˌaɪ diˈeɪ ʃə nl /




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“My doctoral thesis happens to be on one of the ideational foundations of American society, the rebbe of the Founding Fathers”—John Locke.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

Disgust was unlike the other three responses in one peculiar fashion: It could be motivated primarily by ideational factors — by what a person knew, or thought she knew, about the object at hand.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2021

In 1712, Joseph Addison assumed his readers were acquainted with the “great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy” regarding the ideational nature of perception.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2015

Yigal Amir may have acted alone, as he told police, but he had many ideational conspirators.

From Time Magazine Archive

From these volitional variations on the one side, from the ideational disturbances on the other, only a few steps lead to those dissociations of the personality which are characteristic of many graver cases of hysteria.

From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg




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