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pensée — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • idea noun A thought, plan, or mental impression formed in the mind.
  • musing adj Absorbed in thought; contemplative
  • pansy noun A small cultivated garden flower with broad, often multicoloured petals.
  • think verb To use one's mind to consider, reason about, or form an opinion.
  • thought noun An idea or mental image formed in the mind.

Senses

pensée is used for these senses in English:

  • idea More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking. [from 17th c.]
  • musing thought, meditation, contemplation
  • pansy A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
  • think (chiefly, UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
  • thought (countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
  • thought (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.

idea — full definition

  1. noun A thought, plan, or mental impression formed in the mind.
  2. noun A general concept, notion, or way of thinking about something.

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