mentation
mentation noun: mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
Noun
mentation (countable and uncountable, plural mentations)
- Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
- Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 28
- Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation.2008, Pagnoni G. Cekic M. Guo Y., “Thinking about Not Thinking Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation”, in PubMed, volume 3, number 9, PLoS One, →DOI, page 1
mentation meaning in Tamil
mentation in Tamil
- உளச்செயல்
Forms of mentation
| plural | mentations |
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Questions about mentation
- What does mentation mean?
- Mentation means mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
- What is mentation in Tamil?
- Mentation in Tamil is உளச்செயல். See Mentation meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mentation?
- Mentation is a noun.
- What is the plural of mentation?
- The plural of mentation is mentations.
Words near mentation in the dictionary
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