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conations

conations is the plural of conation.

Meaning of conation

Noun

conation (countable and uncountable, plural conations)

  1. The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
    • Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated...1899, George Frederick Stout, A Manual of Psychology, page 234

Questions about conations

What is conations the plural of?
Conations is the plural of conation.

Words near conations in the dictionary

  1. conarium
  2. conarticular
  3. conatal
  4. conation
  5. conational
  6. conations
  7. conative
  8. conatively
  9. conatives
  10. conativism
  11. conativist

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