Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the right brain dominant.
- adjective Of or relating to the thought processes involved in creativity and imagination, generally associated with the right brain.
- adjective Of or relating to a person whose behavior is dominated by emotion, creativity, intuition, nonverbal communication, and global reasoning rather than logic and analysis.
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Examples
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I have become almost entirely right-brained, which is the creative side, and by overrelying on that side, I opened myself up for a severe depression when I had an emotional trauma.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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Mothering and most creative work is intuitive and requires a woman to spontaneously respond to the intimate relationship and primarily visual cues of her infant—an inherently right-brained experience.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Suite 101, a web site devoted to so-called right-brained thinkers, says: Right brains don't explain what they feel well and are misunderstood.
John M. Eger: Right Brained People in a Left Brained World John M. Eger 2011
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Mothering and most creative work is intuitive and requires a woman to spontaneously respond to the intimate relationship and primarily visual cues of her infant—an inherently right-brained experience.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Suite 101, a web site devoted to so-called right-brained thinkers, says: Right brains don't explain what they feel well and are misunderstood.
John M. Eger: Right Brained People in a Left Brained World John M. Eger 2011
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He created the CATHE center – magnificent idea – and he invited many other right-brained people to squat there and create their own paradises.
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And it seems natural that writers would be heavily right-brained.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Left-Brained Approach to Revision 2010
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I am of course, talking about the right-brained people.
John M. Eger: Right Brained People in a Left Brained World John M. Eger 2011
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So, being Good at Writing and Creative meant I was right-brained, which naturally meant that my left brain was less-than, and left-brainedness is responsible for Good at Math and Logical.
the opposite of imposter syndrome. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010
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I am of course, talking about the right-brained people.
John M. Eger: Right Brained People in a Left Brained World John M. Eger 2011
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