mentation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mentation
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
Scientists don’t actually know why humans experience sleep mentation, a fancy name for dreaming.
From Washington Post
Their somber conclusion by the end of March: “No mentation.”
From New York Times
The world measured, modeled and ultimately predicted by physics is the world of perceptions, a category of mentation.
From Scientific American
The voids in my mentation pattern move strangely, as if they have heard these words before.
From Nature
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