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noun as in formation of mental objects

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anticipation, apprehending, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, regard, rumination, scrutiny, seeing, study, theorization

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anxiety, assessment, belief, concern, conclusion, dream, expectation, feeling, hope, image, intention, judgment, knowledge, notion, opinion, plan, prospect, theory, thinking, understanding, view, worry

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aim, appreciation, aspiration, assumption, attentiveness, brainchild, brainstorm, caring, compassion, conception, conjecture, conviction, design, drift, estimation, fancy, guess, hypothesis, inference, intuition, kindness, object, premise, purpose, regard, reverie, solicitude, supposition, sympathy

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Example Sentences

I just thought I’m not going to be able to do anything.”

“He gave guys opportunities to make plays … It showed some poise ... I thought he handled it well.”

“My thought on it was to keep it simple,” Watts said of the measure.

"They seem to have changed their plans a bit because of the constant shift… They thought that it might be a bit difficult to plan their careers and life."

He said he thought he was signing a two-year deal with Hii Com and did not know he was renting the phones under a finance arrangement with another company.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say thought?

The noun thought, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. Idea, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. Conception suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect’s conception delighted them. Notion suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed.