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ideogenetic

ideogenetic adjective: originating ideas or images.

Adjective

ideogenetic (not comparable)

  1. Originating ideas or images.
    • In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition
    • This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind […]2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, page 64

Origin of ideogenetic

From ideo- + -geny + -etic.

Questions about ideogenetic

What does ideogenetic mean?
Ideogenetic means originating ideas or images.
What part of speech is ideogenetic?
Ideogenetic is an adjective.

Words near ideogenetic in the dictionary

  1. ideocracies
  2. ideocracy
  3. ideocrat
  4. ideocratic
  5. ideocrats
  6. ideogenetic
  7. ideogenic
  8. ideogenous
  9. ideogeny
  10. ideoglyph
  11. ideoglyphic

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