01 n. 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 app…
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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.