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conation noun[ U ] psychology specializeduk /kəˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /koʊˈneɪ.ʃən/ mental processes that relate to wanting, intending, or trying to do something: 意动,意图 The classic partition of the mind into three functions includes cognition, emotion, and conation - the will or volitional component. 心智一般分解为三个功能,包括认知、情感和意动——意愿或意志成分。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Science of psychology & psychoanalysis analyse analysis behavioural science behaviourism behaviourist brain mapping certify electroconvulsive therapy electroshock therapy nominative determinism non-psychiatric non-psychiatrist non-psychological noncognitive pathological psyche psychiatrist psychobabble straightjacket unconscious
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Examples of conation conation The feeling of conation, resurrected briefly as a willful "cognitive emotion," is a promising candidate from that periconscious realm. What used to be called conation turns out to be a field as big as cognition. Conation as an important factor of mind. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |