IdeationalEnglishAdjective(-)Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.<span>* <span>1999 </span>, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, <span>The Interpretation of Dreams </span>, Oxford 2008, p. 61:</span><span>An immoral dream would demonstrate nothing further of the dreamer's inner life than that he had at some time acquired knowledge of its <span>ideational </span>content , but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.</span>Derived terms* ideationally * ideational apraxis
Sensible
Adjective(en-adj)Perceptible by the senses.* Arbuthnot<span>Air is <span>sensible </span>to the touch by its motion.</span><span>* <span>1778 </span>, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory(page 91)</span><span>The <span>sensible </span>qualities of <span>argentina </span>promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.</span><span>* <span>1902 </span>, William James, <span>The Varieties of Religious Experience </span>, Folio Society 2008, page 45:</span><span>It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a<span>sensible </span>vision of their Saviour.</span>Easily perceived; appreciable.* Sir W. Temple<span>The disgrace was more <span>sensible </span>than the pain.</span>* Adam Smith<span>The discovery of the mines of America does not seem to have had any very sensibleeffect upon the prices of things in England.</span>(archaic) Able to feel or perceive.* Shakespeare<span>Would your cambric were <span>sensible </span>as your finger.</span>(archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.<span>a <span>sensible </span>thermometer</span>* Shakespeare<span>with affection wondrous sensible</span>Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.(archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.* John Locke<span>He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being <span>sensible </span>of it.</span>* Addison<span>They are now <span>sensible </span>it would have been better to comply than to refuse.</span>Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason.<span>* <span>2005 </span>, .</span><span>They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something <span>sensible </span>to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.</span>Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing.<span>* <span>1999 </span>, Neil Gaiman, <span>Stardust </span>(2001 Perennial Edition), page 8,</span><span>They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such<span>sensible </span>matters.</span>Usage notes* "Sensible" describes the reasonable way in which a person may <span>think'' about things or ''do </span>things: *:<span>It wouldn't be <span>sensible </span>to start all over again now.</span>* "Sensitive" describes an emotional way in which a person may <span>react </span>to things: *: <span>He has always been a <span>sensitive </span>child. </span>*: <span>I didn’t realize she was so<span>sensitive </span>about her work.</span>Related terms* sense * sensory * sensual * sensuous * supersensible
