Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mental activity; thinking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The action or exercise of the mind or of its physical organ; mental activity; ideation; cerebration; intellection.
- noun The result of mentation; state of mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); mental activity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Mental activity. The process of
thinking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Limited, Inc. 2008
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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.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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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 2009
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He deserves to be loudly applauded on his mentation, and even more loudly applauded for having the courage to state his opinion so clearly.
Obama: Virginia governor's slavery omission 'unacceptable' 2010
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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 2009
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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 2010
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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
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“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.”
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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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 2008
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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 2008
oroboros commented on the word mentation
The first place (and possibly, only place) I saw this word was in the writings of G.I. Gurdjieff. It means "thinking".
January 20, 2007
slumry commented on the word mentation
I have heard it in a medical context, referring to the process of thinking, and evaluating a person's medical condition.
July 13, 2007