connation

English

Noun

connation (uncountable)

1. The congenital (or sometimes developmental) fusion of organs of the same type.
   • 1868, William Kitchen Parker, A Monograph on the Structure and Development of the Shoulder-girdle and Sternum in the Vertebrata, page 133:

     There is no connation whatever; there is no Sternum at any time, and no hæmapophyses; nothing, indeed, but membrane-bones formed between the corium and the membrane lining the abdominal cavity.

   • 1895, Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy, page 18:

     When connation does not exist the parts are said to be Distinct or Eleutherous.

   • 1971, Charles Goodliffe Darlington, George W. Wilson, The Year Book of Dentistry - Volume 1971, page 74:

     The family history of connation was elicited, and radiographs were taken of the patients.

   • 1993, J. V. Soames, J. C. Southam, Oral Pathology, page 6:

     For these reasons more general terms are also used, such as double teeth or connation (meaning developed or born together) , which describe the appearance of the anomaly with no implication regarding its aetiology.

   • 2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:

     The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).

2. The learned impulse to behave in a certain way in response to specific stimulii.
   • 1929, Report of the Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, page 129:

     There are two forms of control; one is at the point of cognizance or recognition of the situation. If the individual waits until connation comes about and energy flows with all its power into the organism, control is difficult, if not impossible.

   • 1977, Donald Bannister, New Perspectives in Personal Construct Theory, page 96:

     The classical threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection and connation has been completely abandoned in the psychology of personal constructs.

   • 2012, Minxue Huang, Xiaoliang Feng, Chao Wang, “Research on the Difference of Attitudinal Changes between Ambivalent Consumers”, in Anne Xie, Xiong Huang, editors, Advances in Computer Science and Education, page 142:

     It is difficult to change one's connation, because connation needs a lot of inputs.

   • 2014, Gregory McClell Buchanan, Martin E.P. Seligman, Explanatory Style, page 11:

     Sometimes we wax philosophical and speculate that explanatory style reflects one's strength of will, reviving a long-dormant psychology of connation. Some people are passive and listless in the face of challenge, whereas other people are vigorous and active.

   • 2015, Geoffrey Paul Lantos, Consumer Behavior in Action:

     Attitudes based on connation (intentions and actions) usually result from personal experience or behavioral intent.

   • 2018, David Garfield, Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis:

     “Affectivity is the broader concept of which volition and connation are only one aspect” (Jung, 1907/1976, p. 38).

   • 2020, Yung-Jong Shiah, Foundations of Chinese Psychotherapies, page 119:

     The other two methods to cause the cessation of the desire-driven connation (meditation and wisdom/knowledge) are discussed later.

Related terms

• connate

Anagrams

• nonaction