MENTATION

• MENTATION (noun)
  The noun MENTATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MENTATION used as a noun is very rare.

• MENTATION (noun)

Meaning:

The process of using your mind to consider something carefully

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought process; thought

Context examples:

thinking always made him frown / she paused for thought

Hypernyms ("mentation" is a kind of...):

higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mentation"):

free association (a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence)

convergent thinking (thinking that brings together information focussed on solving a problem (especially solving problems that have a single correct solution))

problem solving (the thought processes involved in solving a problem)

planning; preparation; provision (the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening)

explanation (thought that makes something comprehensible)

excogitation (thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it)

consideration (the process of giving careful thought to something)

ideation (the process of forming and relating ideas)

mysticism (obscure or irrational thought)

thread; train of thought (the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together)

line of thought (a particular way of thinking that is characteristic of some individual or group)

abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning (thinking that is coherent and logical)

construction; mental synthesis (the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought)

divergent thinking; out-of-the-box thinking (thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity)