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Thought

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Belief 76% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Belief 76% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Burden 76% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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Cogitation 76% connected

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

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Concept 76% connected

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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Conception 76% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Consideration 76% connected

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.

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Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Excogitation 76% connected

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

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Explanation 76% connected

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Figment 76% connected

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

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Generality 76% connected

The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

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Generalization 76% connected

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from part…

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Ideal 76% connected

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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Idealization 76% connected

The act or process of idealizing.

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Ideation 76% connected

The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended a…

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Inspiration 76% connected

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the ches…

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Keynote 76% connected

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…

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Kink 76% connected

A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

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Meaning 76% connected

of Mean

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Mind 76% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Misconception 76% connected

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

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Motif 76% connected

Motive.

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Mysticism 76% connected

Obscurity of doctrine.

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Notion 76% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Planning 76% connected

of Plan

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Pole 76% connected

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

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Politics 76% connected

The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safet…

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Preconception 76% connected

The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.

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Preoccupation 76% connected

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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Preparation 76% connected

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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Prepossession 76% connected

Preoccupation; prior possession.

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Program 76% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 76% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Provision 76% connected

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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Reaction 76% connected

Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

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Reasoning 76% connected

of Reason

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Suggestion 76% connected

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

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Theme 76% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Theorem 76% connected

That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Whim 76% connected

The European widgeon.

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Whimsey 76% connected

Alt. of Whimsy

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Whimsy 76% connected

A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

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Conceive 74% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Conceive 74% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Guess 74% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Guess 74% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Regard 74% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Regard 74% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Think 74% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Think 74% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Cerebration 92% connected

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

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Idea 92% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Intellection 92% connected

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itsel…

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Opinion 92% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Persuasion 92% connected

The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines t…

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Sentiment 92% connected

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

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Thinking 92% connected

of Think

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View 92% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Idea 88% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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