cerebration
Using your brain
Cerebration is the act of thinking or mental activity.
The word is formal and slightly clinical, treating thought as a physiological process of the brain rather than an experience of the mind: After much cerebration, she arrived at a solution.
It appears most often in medical or psychological contexts.
Methodical study of parts
- problem-solvingAddressing challenges methodically
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inductionFormal admission process
inference · ratiocination · synthesis · computation · abstraction · reasoning · syllogism · conceptualization
Mental comprehension of something
- knowledgeUnderstood facts and skills
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
comprehension · intelligence · learning · discernment · cognizance · consciousness · recognition · grasp
Focused attention practice
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
- musingReflective contemplation
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
deliberation · brooding · reverie · philosophizing · introspection · soul-searching · self-reflection · navel-gazing
analysis
Methodical study of parts
- problem-solvingAddressing challenges methodically
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
induction · inference · ratiocination · synthesis · computation · abstraction · reasoning · syllogism · conceptualization · theorizing
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- knowledgeUnderstood facts and skills
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
insight · comprehension · intelligence · learning · discernment · cognizance · consciousness · recognition · grasp · interpretation
meditation
Focused attention practice
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
- musingReflective contemplation
rumination · deliberation · brooding · reverie · philosophizing · introspection · soul-searching · self-reflection · navel-gazing · concentration
- contemplationcontemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering, musing
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
cerebrationthoughtlessness
Lack of careful consideration
mindlessness · unconsciousness · unthinking · ignorance · vacuity
cerebrationinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
intuition · reflex · gut reaction · impulse · animal instinct
cerebral, cerebrum, cerebellum, encephalitis, encephalon, cerebrally, encephalogram