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Thinking vs Ponder - What's the difference?

thinking | ponder |

As verbs the difference between thinking and ponder

is that thinking is while ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply.

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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    ponder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wonder, to think of deeply.
  • To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
    • I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
  • * Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
    • Ponder the path of thy feet.
  • (obsolete) To weigh.

    • Synonyms

    * chew over * mull over * See also

    Related terms

    * preponder * preponderance * preponderant * preponderate

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