cerebration
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cerebration
C19: from Latin cerebrum brain
Example Sentences
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But his intimidating magnitude of cerebration — combined with a complicated spirit that could be generous or impatient — made him a difficult role model.
From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2021
It’s a series of brainy notions: lyricism is held in check by cerebration.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018
This is more smells than have ever been smelled by anyone, let alone a streak-haired habitué of the far climes of modernist cerebration.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2000
Riding for the Battery in a race, Tubby smashes up and spends months in a hospital, where he has time for unaccustomed cerebration.
From Time Magazine Archive
As with the dot-com boom, a great deal of profoundly fractured cerebration occurred.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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