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Cerebration

noun
1.
The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.  Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process.  "She paused for thought"





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"Cerebration" Quotes from Famous Books



... — N. thought; exercitation of the intellect[obs3], exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application &c. (attention) 457. abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study &c. (inattention) 458; reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... catchwords. Whether from rebellion against the irking monotony of its inherited creeds or from compulsions generated by its own complexities, each age develops its code of convenient illusions which minimize cerebration in dilemmas of conduct by postulating an unequivocal cleavage between the current right and the current wrong. It works until men tire of it or challenge the cleavage, or until conditions render the code obsolete. It has in it, happily, a certain poetic ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... in the muddle-headed way peculiar to railway porters, and stroking his chin with his hand to assist cerebration, announced, after a severe internal struggle, that the 3.45 down, slow, was the ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen


Words linked to "Cerebration" :   thread, thinking, ideation, mentation, thought process, excogitation, logical thinking, construction, mental synthesis, out-of-the-box thinking, convergent thinking, thought, train of thought, problem solving, higher cognitive process, explanation, reasoning, line of thought, cerebrate, divergent thinking, abstract thought, consideration, intellection, provision, free association, preparation, planning, mysticism


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