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mentation

American  
[men-tey-shuhn] / mɛnˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. mental activity.


mentation British  
/ mɛnˈteɪʃən /

noun

  1. the process or result of mental activity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of mentation

1840–50; < Latin ment- (stem of mēns ) mind + -ation

Example Sentences

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Most broadly, Neubauer said, dreams are a type of mentation, or mental activity, that occurs when people are asleep and generally consists of vivid, hallucinatory visual content that is often bizarre or has irregular narratives.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

Scientists don’t actually know why humans experience sleep mentation, a fancy name for dreaming.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2021

The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe correspond to transpersonal mentation, just as an individual’s brain activity—which is also made of matter—corresponds to personal mentation.

From Scientific American • May 29, 2018

The quietly efficient officer became the eloquent apostle of air power, for war and peace, voicing his creed and its docu mentation in eager New England ac cents.

From Time Magazine Archive

Either case supposes a manner of mentation hardly comprehensible.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

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