Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Mental activity; thinking: "The heartless hip analysis of crime is . . . a part of my life and my mentation” ( Scott Turow).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The action or exercise of the mind or of its physical organ; mental activity; ideation; cerebration; intellection.
- n. The result of mentation; state of mind.
Wiktionary
- n. Mental activity. The process of thinking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); mental activity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Etymologies
- From Latin mēns, ment-, mind; see mental1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Schneidman was interested in what he called "risk writing" - that is, the relationship between writing and suicidal 'mentation' - and wrote a study of the "suicidal logic" of the Italian writer, Cesare Pavese, who committed suicide.”
“In this and in many other respects the mental activities of the fatigued or sleepy individual approach the type of mentation which is normal to the feeble-minded.”
“I had no mentation the promulgate would spread b bruit about into notable notice such irrefutable reactions in people, but I acumen unquestionably strongly with compliments to self-determination of language and allowing ideas to be unconstrainedly circulated.”
The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done
“Since “actual economic quantities denominated in dollars” does not account for all the things that happen inbetweentimes of transactions, economists for many decades have studied various aspects of valuing the “extraneous, inbetween things” that still require physical effort and mentation: including neighborhood effects, externalities, public goods, transactions costs, asymmetric information, imperfect competition, monopoly, and institutions.”
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“He deserves to be loudly applauded on his mentation, and even more loudly applauded for having the courage to state his opinion so clearly.”
“Rick Warren is an insult not only to the gay community but also to women and to most people who favor mentation.”
Gay Activists Decry Pastor’s Role in Swearing-In - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Our bio computer and its mentation and memory, function at levels way deeper than current loops on neurons.”
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today
“She is really getting very low in her thinking and as all said pendit says Clinton do anything to get nomination, she if finally showing here color, and CNN should keep showing this on TV, and mentation, she will lies, cheat and have some on killed to get nomination”
““Because our culture so highly values self-control and control of circumstances, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be.””
“Once we get into it, I imagine we'll get way more inventive than the low-mentation repub crowd anyway.”
Obama Camp Edits Call For Imprisonment Of Top Republicans Out Of Kucinich Speech
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mentation’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
By David Foster Wallace
emeritus, apian, fenestration, prophylax, pelisse, niggardly, lallating, pica, simulacrum, floridly, acquiesced, truculent and 114 more...
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muliebrity, mulierose, marquetry, melioration, mendacious, metaphrase, mirabilia, mirabiliary, modish, monition, morigerate, mentation and 28 more...
Tweets
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slumry I have heard it in a medical context, referring to the process of thinking, and evaluating a person's medical condition. Jul 13, 2007
oroboros The first place (and possibly, only place) I saw this word was in the writings of G.I. Gurdjieff. It means "thinking". Jan 20, 2007