thinking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of using your mind to consider or reason about something.

   Clear thinking is essential when you solve difficult problems.

2. 2
   noun

   An opinion or way of judging a situation.

   What is your thinking on this subject?

3. 3
   adj

   Able to reason and consider things carefully.

   Any thinking person can see that the plan will fail.

Common collocations

• creative thinking Adjective + noun
• critical thinking Adjective + noun
• logical thinking Adjective + noun
• wishful thinking Adjective + noun
• challenge someone's thinking Verb + noun
• influence someone's thinking Verb + noun
• shape someone's thinking Verb + noun

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”).

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