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English noun: evocation

1. evocation (cognition) imaginative re-creation


Broader (hypernym)imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery

2. evocation (cognition) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations


Synonymssummoning


Broader (hypernym)conjuration, conjuring, conjury, invocation


Part meronymdispossession, exorcism

3. evocation (cognition) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors


SamplesThe elicitation of his testimony was not easy.


Synonymselicitation, induction


Broader (hypernym)input, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus









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