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Ideation
From here: Oracle Agile
"Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management enables you to strategically manage the complete lifecycle of a product: from the ideation phase through to recycling and retirement."
Perhaps it's just my ignorance of a well known word, but it caught me by surprise and made me shudder.
From here: Oracle Agile
"Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management enables you to strategically manage the complete lifecycle of a product: from the ideation phase through to recycling and retirement."
Perhaps it's just my ignorance of a well known word, but it caught me by surprise and made me shudder.
Not made up at all:
Oxford English Dictionary said:
ideation, n 1. The formation of ideas or mental images of things not present to the senses; the creation of new ideas.
This word has been in use for 200 years. Just because you are too ignorant to have come across it before does not make it made up. Some made up words are worth keeping though, for example:
Sarchasm - the gap between the person being sarcastic and the person not getting it
Ignoranus - someone who is both stupid and an a
hole
Bozone - the fog of stupidity that surrounds some people and prevents good ideas from penetrating
Sarchasm - the gap between the person being sarcastic and the person not getting it
Ignoranus - someone who is both stupid and an a
holeBozone - the fog of stupidity that surrounds some people and prevents good ideas from penetrating
plasticpig said:
This word has been in use for 200 years. Just because you are too ignorant to have come across it before does not make it made up.
WADR: he may be ignornat of the word and its meaning but that is not to say he is himself ignorant in the sense of lacking in manners .ignorant
ˈɪgn(ə)r(ə)nt/
adjective
adjective: ignorant
1.
lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
"he was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid"
synonyms: uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed, unenlightened, unscholarly, unqualified, benighted, backward; More
inexperienced, unworldly, unsophisticated;
unintelligent, stupid, simple, empty-headed, mindless;
informalpig-ignorant, thick, airheaded, (as) thick as two short planks, dense, dumb, dim, dopey, wet behind the ears, slow on the uptake, dead from the neck up, a brick short of a load, two sandwiches short of a picnic;
informaldozy, divvy, daft, not the full shilling;
informalglaikit;
informalchowderheaded, dumb-ass;
informaldotish;
informaldof;
rarehebete
"an ignorant country girl"
antonyms: educated, knowledgeable
lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about something in particular.
"I was largely ignorant of the effects of radiotherapy"
synonyms: without knowledge, unaware, unconscious, insensible; More
unfamiliar with, unacquainted with, unconversant with, inexperienced in, uninitiated in, blind to, oblivious to, naive about, innocent about, green about, a stranger to;
uninformed about, unenlightened about, unschooled in;
informalin the dark about, clueless about, not knowing the first thing about, not having the faintest about;
literarynescient, strange to
"middle-class women were ignorant of working-class life"
antonyms: knowledgeable about
2.
informal
discourteous or rude.
"this ignorant, pin-brained receptionist"
synonyms: rude, impolite, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, ungracious, discourteous, insensitive, uncivil, ill-humoured, surly, sullen; More
boorish, oafish, loutish, crude, coarse, vulgar, gross
"she could be very ignorant, and he had no intention of getting in an argument"
antonyms: polite
3.
black English
easily angered.
"I is an ignorant man—even police don't meddle with me"
Origin
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