ideational

Adjective

ideational (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
   • An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its ideational content [translating Vorstellungsinhalt], but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 61
   • Ideational culture, which Sorokin counterposes to the sensate, is generated through more ethereal forms of engagement with the world. Ideational culture also abounds in religious communities.2004, John P. Bartkowski, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men, page 42