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Noticing vs Thinking - What's the difference?

noticing | thinking |

As verbs the difference between noticing and thinking

is that noticing is while thinking is .

As nouns the difference between noticing and thinking

is that noticing is the act by which something is noticed while thinking is gerund of think.

noticing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is noticed.
  • * 2005 , Susan Cerulean, Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites (page 132)
    • I believe these simple, crude noticings on my part must parallel the beginnings of systems of augury.

    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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