thinking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

   Thinking always made them frown.

2. 2
   noun

   A thought.

   What is your thinking on this subject?

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of think

   I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.

4. 4
   adj

   endowed with the capacity to reason

5. 5
   noun

   The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.

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”).