| ideology | 1. <study> The science of ideas. 2. <psychology> A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation. By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, ideologie . . . Has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. Origin: Ideo-: cf. F. Ideologie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ideomotion | <physiology> Muscular movement executed under the influence of a dominant idea, being practically automatic and not volitional. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ideomotor | <physiology> Relating to ideomotion. Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Origin: Ideo- + motor. Synonym: ideokinetic. (21 Jun 2000) |
| ideophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of new or different ideas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ideoplastia | Rarely used term for the receptive condition in a hypnotised person in which he or she is thought to be completely open to suggestion. Origin: ideo-+ G. Plasso, to form (05 Mar 2000) |