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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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

  1. n. The action or exercise of the mind or of its physical organ; mental activity; ideation; cerebration; intellection.
  2. n. The result of mentation; state of mind.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Mental activity. The process of thinking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); mental activity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

Etymologies

  1. From Latin mēns, ment-, mind; see mental1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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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

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