Ideation: alternatives and connections

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…

a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary"

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…

Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning agai…

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…

The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their…

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline,…

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or per…

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equ…

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is concei…

Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized…