cerebration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the operation of the brain or the process of thinking, especially sustained or partly unconscious mental activity

   The answer surfaced after several hours of unconscious cerebration.

Formed from Latin cerebrum ("brain") + -ation, through the verb cerebrate. Nineteenth-century writers popularized the phrase unconscious cerebration for mental processing believed to continue outside conscious awareness.

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