"thought process" meaning in English

See thought process in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: thought processes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} thought process (plural thought processes)
  1. The steps that a person or group goes through in arriving at a thought. Synonyms: thought-process Related terms: mindflow, train of thought Translations (process of thinking): ajatuskulku (Finnish), cheminement de la pensée [masculine] (French), fil de la pensée [masculine] (French), 考え方 (kangaekata) (Japanese), tankegang [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tankegang [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), proces myślowy [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-thought_process-en-noun-F5yCB-Dk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for thought process meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thought processes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "thought process (plural thought processes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1845, Samuel Ware Fisher, The Supremacy of Mind: a Lecture, page 38",
          "text": "Moral judgment, social judgment, or any other kind of higher thought process, is a function of intelligence, that is, of neuronic growth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The steps that a person or group goes through in arriving at a thought."
      ],
      "id": "en-thought_process-en-noun-F5yCB-Dk",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mindflow"
        },
        {
          "word": "train of thought"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thought-process"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "word": "ajatuskulku"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cheminement de la pensée"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fil de la pensée"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kangaekata",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "word": "考え方"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tankegang"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tankegang"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "process of thinking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "proces myślowy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thought process"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thought processes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "thought process (plural thought processes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mindflow"
    },
    {
      "word": "train of thought"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1845, Samuel Ware Fisher, The Supremacy of Mind: a Lecture, page 38",
          "text": "Moral judgment, social judgment, or any other kind of higher thought process, is a function of intelligence, that is, of neuronic growth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The steps that a person or group goes through in arriving at a thought."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "thought-process"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "word": "ajatuskulku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cheminement de la pensée"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fil de la pensée"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kangaekata",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "word": "考え方"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tankegang"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tankegang"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "process of thinking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proces myślowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thought process"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.