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Thinking vs Contemplate - What's the difference?

thinking | contemplate |

As verbs the difference between thinking and contemplate

is that thinking is while contemplate is to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.

As a noun thinking

is gerund of think.

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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    contemplate

    English

    Verb

    (contemplat)
  • To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
  • * Milton
    • To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
  • * Byron
    • We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
  • To consider as a possibility.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
  • * Kent
    • If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

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