ideation
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The forming of ideas or thoughts, often used when documenting thoughts of harm to self or others.
She disclosed passive suicidal ideation but denied any plan or intent to act on it.
Business noun
The structured process of generating and developing new business ideas.
The weekend hackathon was pure ideation, producing forty concepts before any were tested.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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