præsentation

Noun

presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)

1. The act of presenting, or something presented.
   • Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

   Synonyms:

   presentment

2. The outward appearance or representation of a person or thing to the human mind.
   • Listen, James...with the ways that you speak, dress, and comport yourself, is it any wonder to you that your presentation to young ladies as a possible mate is , to say the least, lacking?
3. A dramatic performance.
4. An award given to someone on a special occasion.
5. Money given as a wedding gift.
6. A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.

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Noun

presentiation (uncountable)

1. The act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given; a synonym of presentification; an intuitive consciousness that renders something co-present or represented.
   • By presentiation I understand every experience in which an object is itself "in person" before us, whether as a physical thing in perception, or as a phantasy object in phantasy.1931, Edmund Husserl, translated by Dorion Cairns, Cartesian Meditations, Martinus Nijhoff, published 1960, §44

   Synonyms:

   presentification, representation