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cerebration

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/ ˌsɛrɪˈbreɪʃən /

noun

  1. the act of thinking; consideration; thought

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cerebration

C19: from Latin cerebrum brain

Example Sentences

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But his intimidating magnitude of cerebration — combined with a complicated spirit that could be generous or impatient — made him a difficult role model.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2021

It’s a series of brainy notions: lyricism is held in check by cerebration.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018

This is more smells than have ever been smelled by anyone, let alone a streak-haired habitué of the far climes of modernist cerebration.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2000

His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration.

From Time Magazine Archive

As with the dot-com boom, a great deal of profoundly fractured cerebration occurred.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann