mental gymnastics
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Difficult and complex logical thought processes, especially when performed effortlessly.
Example Sentences
- "To cope with these mental gymnastics we apply various ways of simplifying and reducing the information."
- "People often perform mental gymnastics in order to blame anyone but themselves."
- "But the end of science is to know reality. It is not mental gymnastics or a logical pastime."