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Pondering vs Thinking - What's the difference?

pondering | thinking |

As verbs the difference between pondering and thinking

is that pondering is present participle of lang=en while thinking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pondering and thinking

is that pondering is ruminations while thinking is gerund of think.

pondering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ruminations.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Jim Coyle, title=Spoofing of premier a bad omen, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.}}

    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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