cerebration
101thinking — adj 1. rational, reasoning, reasonable, sensible, cerebral; logical, practical, pragmatic; intelligent, knowing, ratiocinative, percipient, perceiving; analytic, ideational, philosophical, sophic; speculative, imaginative. 2. reflective,… …
102thought — n 1. conception, concept, idea, conceit; imagination, notion, whim, whimsy, vagary, crotchet, fancy. 2. cerebration, cerebrating, thinking, brainwork, headwork, lucubration; concentration, concentrating, focusing, having one s mind on, reflection …
103decerebration — de·cerebration …
104cerebrate — cer•e•brate [[t]ˈsɛr əˌbreɪt[/t]] v. i. brat•ed, brat•ing to use the mind; think • Etymology: 1870–75; back formation from cerebration. See cerebrum, ation cer e•bra′tion, n. cer e•bra′tion•al, adj …
105cogitation — [n] deep thought brainwork, cerebration, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, rumination, speculation; concept 410 Ant. ignorance …
106deliberation — [n] serious thought, discussion application, attention, brainwork, calculation, care, carefulness, caution, cerebration, circumspection, cogitation, confabulation, conference, consideration, consultation, debate, forethought, heed, meditation,… …
107intellect — [n] capability of the mind; someone with capable mind ability, acumen, brains*, cerebration, comprehension, egghead*, genius, intellectual, intellectuality, intelligence, intuition, judgment, mentality, mind, psyche, pundit, reason, savvy, sense …
108reflection — [n1] thought, thinking absorption, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, pensiveness, pondering, rumination, speculation, study,… …
109speculation — [n1] theory, guess belief, brainwork*, cerebration, cogitation, conjecture, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, excogitation, guesstimate*, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, meditation, opinion, reflection, review, shot, shot in the dark*,… …
110thought — [n1] formation of mental objects anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, hope,… …
