Excogitation: alternatives and connections

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

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The quality of being creative.

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A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itsel…

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of Think

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of Think

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A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

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To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

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The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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