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present participle of ideate
Synonyms of ideating
to form a mental picture of
- the psychotic would repeatedly ideate the act of committing murder, and eventually he came to believe his own delusions
Synonyms for ideating
- conceiting
- [chiefly dialect],
- conceiving,
- conjuring (up),
- dreaming,
- envisaging,
- envisioning,
- fancying,
- fantasizing,
- fantasying,
- featuring,
- imaging,
- imagining,
- picturing,
- seeing,
- visioning,
- visualizing
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“Ideating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideating. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.
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