ideation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the process of forming and relating ideas

WordNet

I`de*a"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.
    The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.

Webster 1913