n 1 a  :  the action or process of thinking  b  :  serious consideration  2 a  :  reasoning power  b  :  the power to imagine  :  CONCEPTION  3  :  something that is thought: as  a  :  an individual act or product of thinking  b  :  a developed intention or plan <he had no of leaving home>   c  :  something (as an opinion or belief) in the mind <she spoke her s freely>   d  :  the intellectual product or the organized views and principles of a period, place, group, or individual .
 
 
 
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