English > thinking: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The process of using your mind to consider something carefully. |
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| Example | "thinking always made him frown" |
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| Synonyms | thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation |
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| Narrower | consideration | The process of giving careful thought to something |
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| construction, mental synthesis | The creation of a construct |
| convergent thinking | Thinking that brings together information focussed on solving a problem (especially solving problems that have a single correct solution) |
| divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking | thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions |
| excogitation | thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it |
| explanation | Thought that makes something comprehensible |
| free association | A thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
| ideation | The process of forming and relating ideas |
| line of thought | A particular way of thinking that is characteristic of some individual or group |
| mysticism | obscure or irrational thought |
| planning, preparation, provision | The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening / happening |
| problem solving | The thought processes involved in solving a problem |
| reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought | Thinking that is coherent and logical |
| train of thought, thread | The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together |
| Broader | higher cognitive process | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use |
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| Spanish | intelección, meditación, pensamiento, reflexión |
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| Catalan | meditació, pensament, reflexió |
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| Verbs | think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
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| think | decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting |
