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MENTAL OBJECT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Synonyms:
cognitive content; content; mental object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mental object" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental object"):
metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)
domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)
ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)
lore; traditional knowledge (knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote)
acculturation; culture (all the knowledge and values shared by a society)
experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)
education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)
end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)
heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)
disbelief; unbelief (a rejection of belief)
kenosis (the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism)
belief (any cognitive content held as true)
internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
center; centre; core; essence; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum (the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience)
idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)
issue (an important question that is in dispute and must be settled)
issue; matter; subject; topic (some situation or event that is thought about)
universe; universe of discourse (everything stated or assumed in a given discussion)
noumenon; thing-in-itself (the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception)
food; food for thought; intellectual nourishment (anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking)
object (the focus of cognitions or feelings)
tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)
