Question

What is ideation vs sensible?

Answer 1

IdeationalEnglishAdjective(-)Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 61: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 , but certainly not that it revealed an impulse of his own psyche.Derived terms* ideationally * ideational apraxis

Sensible 

Adjective(en-adj)Perceptible by the senses.* ArbuthnotAir is sensible to the touch by its motion.* 1778 , William Lewis, The New Dispensatory(page 91)The sensible qualities of argentina 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.* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, page 45:It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had asensible vision of their Saviour.Easily perceived; appreciable.* Sir W. TempleThe disgrace was more sensible than the pain.* Adam SmithThe discovery of the mines of America does not seem to have had any very sensibleeffect upon the prices of things in England.(archaic) Able to feel or perceive.* ShakespeareWould your cambric were sensible as your finger.(archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.a sensible thermometer* Shakespearewith affection wondrous sensibleOf or pertaining to the senses; sensory.(archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.* John LockeHe cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.* AddisonThey are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason.* 2005 , .They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing.* 1999 , Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8,They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other suchsensible matters.Usage notes* "Sensible" describes the reasonable way in which a person may think'' about things or ''do things: *:It wouldn't be sensible to start all over again now.* "Sensitive" describes an emotional way in which a person may react to things: *: He has always been a sensitive child. *: I didn’t realize she was sosensitive about her work.Related terms* sense * sensory * sensual * sensuous * supersensible