mentation

noun

men·​ta·​tion men-ˈtā-shən 

: mental activity

Example Sentences

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And so this is often referred to as sleep mentation. —Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022

The various games advertised to improve memory and in certain cases stave off dementia—Lumosity and its like—have little or no power to improve memory, attention, or good mentation. —John Crowley, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022

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. —Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021

Scientists don’t actually know why humans experience sleep mentation, a fancy name for dreaming. —Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021

For millions of years before the emergence of humans, elephants — like their equally weighty, waterborne counterparts, whales — roamed and conversed along vast corridors of migration and mentation. —New York Times, 9 July 2019

The rider cracked his helmet and had an altered mentation. —Nico Savidge, The Mercury News, 29 June 2019

For millions of years before the emergence of humans, elephants — like their equally weighty, waterborne counterparts, whales — roamed and conversed along vast corridors of migration and mentation. —New York Times, 9 July 2019

The rider cracked his helmet and had an altered mentation. —Nico Savidge, The Mercury News, 29 June 2019

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Word History

Etymology

Latin ment-, mens + English -ation

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

mentation

noun

men·​ta·​tion men-ˈtā-shən 

: mental activity

unconscious mentation