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Pensiveness vs Thinking - What's the difference?

pensiveness | thinking |

As nouns the difference between pensiveness and thinking

is that pensiveness is a thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic while thinking is gerund of think.

As a verb thinking is

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pensiveness

English

Noun

(-)
  • A thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic.
    • ''We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness

    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)
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    • , 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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