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mentation|mɛnˈteɪʃən|
[f. L. ment-, mens mind + -ation.]
Mental action, esp. as attributed to the agency of the brain or other nervous organ; also, a product of ‘mentation’, a state of mind.
1850Kingsley Alton Locke iv, The cerebration of each in the prophetic sacrament of the yet undeveloped possibilities of his mentation. 1876H. Maudsley Physiol. of Mind ii. 133 That substratum of mentality, which is beneath mentation, or conscious mental function. 1900Contemp. Rev. Oct. 537 Successive mental images, successive ‘mentations’ if I may be allowed to introduce a most useful word, made in America. 1903Dublin Rev. Oct. 269 note, Subliminal mentation is oftenest exhibited in literary composition. |