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Idea
IDE'A, n. [L. idea; Gr. to see, L. video.]
1. Literally, that which is seen; hence, form, image, model of any thing in the mind; that which is held or comprehended by the understanding or intellectual faculties.
I have used the idea, to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking.
Whatever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought or understanding, that I call an idea.
The attention of the understanding to the objects acting on it, by which it becomes sensible of the impressions they make, is called by logicians, perception, and the notices themselves as they exist in the mind, as the materials of thinking and knowledge, are distinguished by the name of ideas.
An idea is the reflex perception of objects, after the original perception or impression has been felt by the mind.
In popular language, idea signifies the same thing as conception, apprehension, notion. To have an idea of any thing is to conceive it. In philosophical use, it does not signify that act of the mind which we call thought or conception, but some object of thought.
According to modern writers on mental philosophy, an idea is the object of thought, or the notice which the mind takes of its perceptions.
Darwin uses idea for a notion of external things which our organs bring us acquainted with originally, and he defines it, a contraction, motion or configuration of the fibers which constitute the immediate organ of sense; synonymous with which he sometimes uses sensual motion, in contradistinction to muscular motion.
1. In popular use, idea signifies notion, conception, thought, opinion, and even purpose or intention.
2. Image in the mind.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
[A bad use of the word.]
3. An opinion; a proposition. These decisions are incompatible with the idea, that the principles are derived from the civil law.
idea appears in definitions for these words:
Abhorrent Abstract Abstraction Accept Accountability Accuracy Acknowledgment Add Added Adequate Advocate Affix Again Ambages Analogical Answer Anticlimax Antipathy Appellative Apprehension Appropriate Appropriation Approve Archetype Associate Association At Attend Avail Averse Barren Bask Bating Before Behavior Bigness Birhomboidal Blast Blubber Burrow Capacity Carry Category Celestial Certainty Chain Charact Circumlocution Cohesion Collect Combine Cometarium Commerce Compare Complex Complexedness Complication Composition Comprehend Comprehension Conceit Conceive Conception Concurrence Condemn Condense Conduct Confound Confuse Confusion Conjecture Connect Contemplation Content Contradistinguish Convey Critique Crowth Dactylology Decomplex Deducible Delay Delirious Delirium Derive Design Devise Dichotomy Diction Difference Disagree Disagreement Discernible Discernment Discolor Discourse Dispense Disseminate Distance Distant Distinct Distinctness Distinguishable Disturbance Diversify Dream Dreaming Ecstasy Efface Egoist Elevation Embarrass Enlargement Enthusiasm Enthusiast Epistolic Erase Essence Eternity Exemplar Explicitness Express Expression Fade Fanciful Fasten Feeling Feign Felony Figuratively Fly Formation Frame Fresh Fugitive Furnish Gallop General Gesture Glow Grammar Grand Great Hallucination Handsome Hereditament Hold Humor Humorously Idea Ideal Idealism Idealize Ideally Ideate Image Imagery Imagination Imagine Imaginer Imagining Immensity Impression Impure Inadequacy Inadequate Indeterminately Indistinct Indistinctly Inference Infix Ingenious Ingenuity Inlet Innate Insinuate Inspiration Inspire Intellect Intellection Intellectual Intelligence Intention Into Intuition Join Judge Judgment Know Knowledge Language Learn Learning Left Letter Lightly Luminousness Manna Master Material Meager Mean Melancholy Memory Mentally Method Misrepresenting Mode Motto Mystery Name Neither Nonsense Nonsensicalness Notion Notional Objectively Obliterate Obstinacy Obtrude Occasion Of Offer Original Pass Passion Passive Patronize Pelf Perception Perfect Periphrase Perish Perspicuity Perspicuous Phantasm Picture Piece Plan Pleonasm Potential Precisely Preconceive Predicament Prepossession Presensation Probability Pun Quit Reach Reasonableness Receive Reception Recollect Recollection Recur Relate Remember Remembrance Reminiscence Repository Representment Resistibility Resolution Resolve Retain Retention Revive Rich Richness Romance Round Sagacity Scholar See Self-evidence Shabby Shape Sharp Shoot Shortly Shuffle Signification Significative Signify Simple Single Singular Sketch Slip Slowness Sourness Specht Species Speculative Speculatively Speech Sterile Sterility Stick Stock Strength Suggest Suggestion Synonym Synonymous Tackle Take Telegraph Tenor Term There Think Thinking Thought Towards Train Trap Trope Turn Unaccustomed Undefinable Understand Understanding Unideal Unloose Unsorted Unsought Utopian Vague Vehicle Venus Versifier Version Volition Way Whencesoever Wit Wittily Word Wording Write Writing Wrong
Abhorrent Abstract Abstraction Accept Accountability Accuracy Acknowledgment Add Added Adequate Advocate Affix Again Ambages Analogical Answer Anticlimax Antipathy Appellative Apprehension Appropriate Appropriation Approve Archetype Associate Association At Attend Avail Averse Barren Bask Bating Before Behavior Bigness Birhomboidal Blast Blubber Burrow Capacity Carry Category Celestial Certainty Chain Charact Circumlocution Cohesion Collect Combine Cometarium Commerce Compare Complex Complexedness Complication Composition Comprehend Comprehension Conceit Conceive Conception Concurrence Condemn Condense Conduct Confound Confuse Confusion Conjecture Connect Contemplation Content Contradistinguish Convey Critique Crowth Dactylology Decomplex Deducible Delay Delirious Delirium Derive Design Devise Dichotomy Diction Difference Disagree Disagreement Discernible Discernment Discolor Discourse Dispense Disseminate Distance Distant Distinct Distinctness Distinguishable Disturbance Diversify Dream Dreaming Ecstasy Efface Egoist Elevation Embarrass Enlargement Enthusiasm Enthusiast Epistolic Erase Essence Eternity Exemplar Explicitness Express Expression Fade Fanciful Fasten Feeling Feign Felony Figuratively Fly Formation Frame Fresh Fugitive Furnish Gallop General Gesture Glow Grammar Grand Great Hallucination Handsome Hereditament Hold Humor Humorously Idea Ideal Idealism Idealize Ideally Ideate Image Imagery Imagination Imagine Imaginer Imagining Immensity Impression Impure Inadequacy Inadequate Indeterminately Indistinct Indistinctly Inference Infix Ingenious Ingenuity Inlet Innate Insinuate Inspiration Inspire Intellect Intellection Intellectual Intelligence Intention Into Intuition Join Judge Judgment Know Knowledge Language Learn Learning Left Letter Lightly Luminousness Manna Master Material Meager Mean Melancholy Memory Mentally Method Misrepresenting Mode Motto Mystery Name Neither Nonsense Nonsensicalness Notion Notional Objectively Obliterate Obstinacy Obtrude Occasion Of Offer Original Pass Passion Passive Patronize Pelf Perception Perfect Periphrase Perish Perspicuity Perspicuous Phantasm Picture Piece Plan Pleonasm Potential Precisely Preconceive Predicament Prepossession Presensation Probability Pun Quit Reach Reasonableness Receive Reception Recollect Recollection Recur Relate Remember Remembrance Reminiscence Repository Representment Resistibility Resolution Resolve Retain Retention Revive Rich Richness Romance Round Sagacity Scholar See Self-evidence Shabby Shape Sharp Shoot Shortly Shuffle Signification Significative Signify Simple Single Singular Sketch Slip Slowness Sourness Specht Species Speculative Speculatively Speech Sterile Sterility Stick Stock Strength Suggest Suggestion Synonym Synonymous Tackle Take Telegraph Tenor Term There Think Thinking Thought Towards Train Trap Trope Turn Unaccustomed Undefinable Understand Understanding Unideal Unloose Unsorted Unsought Utopian Vague Vehicle Venus Versifier Version Volition Way Whencesoever Wit Wittily Word Wording Write Writing Wrong
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