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Excogitation vs Thinking - What's the difference?

excogitation | thinking |

As nouns the difference between excogitation and thinking

is that excogitation is careful thought or consideration while thinking is gerund of think.

As a verb thinking is

present participle of lang=en.

excogitation

English

Noun

  • Careful thought or consideration.
  • * 186? , Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
    • To the excogitation of this problem, this harmless gentleman had devoted many anxious hours

    Related terms

    * excogitate

    thinking

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Gerund of think.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage= 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * critical thinking * thinking man * wishful thinking

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}

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