thinking
noun
- mental activity involving an individual's subjective consciousness
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.
- The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
- A thought.
“What is your thinking on this subject?”
“But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think + -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).
- present participle and gerund of think
“I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.”
“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”