Meaning and example
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Thinking always made him frown
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.247 places mentation in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 40.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 40.1%
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
- Known by
- 40.4%
the property of being close together
- Known by
- 39.7%
nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America
- Known by
- 39.6%
used of persons only; having great physical beauty
- Known by
- 40.8%
an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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