The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.
synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process.
Roget 451:
thought;
exercitation of the intellect†,
exercise of the intellect;
intellection;
reflection,
cogitation,
consideration,
meditation,
study,
lucubration,
speculation,
deliberation,
pondering;
head work,
brain work;
cerebration;
deep reflection;
close study,
application
etc.
(attention)
457.
abstract thought,
abstraction contemplation,
musing;
brown study
etc.
(inattention)
458;
reverie,
Platonism;
depth of thought,
workings of the mind,
thoughts,
inmost thoughts;
self-counsel self-communing,
self-consultation;
philosophy of the Absolute,
philosophy of the Academy,
philosophy of the Garden,
philosophy of the lyceum,
philosophy of the Porch.
association of thought,
succession of thought,
flow of thought,
train of thought,
current of thought,
association of ideas,
succession of ideas,
flow of ideas,
train of ideas,
current of ideas.
after thought,
mature thought;
reconsideration,
second thoughts;
retrospection
etc.
(memory)
505;
excogitation†;
examination
etc.
(inquiry)
461;
invention
etc.
(imagination)
515.
thoughtfulness
etc.
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Roget 450:
intellect,
mind,
understanding,
reason,
thinking principle;
rationality;
cogitative faculties,
cognitive faculties,
discursive faculties,
reasoning faculties,
intellectual faculties;
faculties,
senses,
consciousness,
observation,
percipience,
intelligence,
intellection,
intuition,
association of ideas,
instinct,
conception,
judgment,
wits,
parts,
capacity,
intellectuality,
genius;
brains,
cognitive powers,
intellectual powers;
wit
etc.
498;
ability
etc.
(skill)
698;
wisdom
etc.
498;
Vernunft [G.],
Verstand [G.].
soul,
spirit,
ghost,
inner man,
heart,
breast,
bosom,
penetralia mentis [Lat.],
divina particula aurae [Lat.],
heart's core;
the Absolute,
psyche,
subliminal consciousness,
supreme principle.
brain,
organ of thought,
seat of thought;
sensorium†,
sensory;
head,
headpiece;
pate,
noddle†,
noggin,
skull,
scull,
pericranium [Med.],
cerebrum,
cranium,
brainpan†,
sconce,
upper story.
[in computers] [Comp.]
central processing unit,
CPU;
arithmetic and logical unit,
ALU.
[Science of mind]
metaphysics;
psychics,
psychology;
ideology;
mental philosophy,
moral philosophy;
philosophy of the mind;
pneumatology†,
phrenology;
craniology [Med.],
cranioscopy [Med.].
ideality,
idealism;
transcendentalism,
spiritualism;
immateriality
etc.
317;
universal concept,
universal conception.
metaphysician,
psychologist
etc.
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Dutch: gedachte
Polish: proces myślowy, myślenie