Cerebration
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of cerebrating; reflection, thinking, thought. countable, uncountable
"We shall erelong hear still more remarkable illustrations of subconsciously maturing processes eventuating in results of which we suddenly grow conscious. […] Dr. Carpenter first, unless I am mistaken, introduced the term ‘unconscious cerebration’, which has since then been a popular phrase of explanation."
- 2 the process of using your mind to consider something carefully wordnet
Example
More examples"We shall erelong hear still more remarkable illustrations of subconsciously maturing processes eventuating in results of which we suddenly grow conscious. […] Dr. Carpenter first, unless I am mistaken, introduced the term ‘unconscious cerebration’, which has since then been a popular phrase of explanation."
Etymology
From Latin cerebrum (“brain”) + -ation.
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