English noun: evocation |
1. | evocation (cognition) imaginative re-creation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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2. | evocation (cognition) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations |
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| Synonyms | summoning |
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| Broader (hypernym) | conjuration, conjuring, conjury, invocation |
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| Part meronym | dispossession, exorcism |
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3. | evocation (cognition) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors |
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| Samples | The elicitation of his testimony was not easy.
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| Synonyms | elicitation, induction |
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| Broader (hypernym) | input, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
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