thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation
(noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; “thinking always made him frown”; “she paused for thought”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
intellection (countable and uncountable, plural intellections)
(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
(countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
(countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
Source: Wiktionary
In`tel*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection.]
Definition: A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
