MENTAL OBJECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental object mean? 

• MENTAL OBJECT (noun)
  The noun MENTAL OBJECT has 1 sense:

1. the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

  Familiarity information: MENTAL OBJECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL OBJECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cognitive content; content; mental object

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"):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

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)

tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)

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)