CREATING BY MENTAL ACTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creating by mental acts mean? 

• CREATING BY MENTAL ACTS (noun)
  The noun CREATING BY MENTAL ACTS has 1 sense:

1. the act of creating something by thinking

  Familiarity information: CREATING BY MENTAL ACTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATING BY MENTAL ACTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of creating something by thinking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("creating by mental acts" is a kind of...):

creation; creative activity (the human act of creating)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creating by mental acts"):

formation (creation by mental activity)

design; designing (the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan))

computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming (creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something)

verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)

actualisation; actualization; realisation; realization (making real or giving the appearance of reality)

composing; composition (musical creation)

invention (the act of inventing)

conceptualisation; conceptualization; formulation (inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally)