thinking.
The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
Meaning & usage
The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
A thought.
What is your thinking on this subject?
Where this word comes from
From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.
present participle and gerund of think
I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
Where this word comes from
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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