Division I.—Formation of Ideas
Section I.—Operations of Intellect in General
- Intellect (Substantives), mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, nous, noesis, sense, common sense, consciousness, capacity, intelligence, percipience, intellection, intuition, instinct, conception, judgment, genius, parts, wit, wits, shrewdness, archness, intellectuality; the five senses; rationalism; see Skill 698 and Wisdom 498.
- Absence or want of intellect, see 499, materialism.
(Adjectives). Material, objective, etc.
- Thought (Substantives), reflection, cogitation, cerebration, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head - work, application, attention 457.
Subconsciousness, the subconscious mind.
Soul, spirit, psyche, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurœ.
Organ or seat of thought: sensorium, sensory, brain, head, head-piece, pate, noddle, nut, skull, brain- pan, pericranium, cerebrum, cerebellum, cranium.
Science of mind: Metaphysics, Psychology, Psychics, Psycho-analysis, Ideology, Idealism, Ideality, Pneumatology, Immaterialism, Intuitionism, Realism, etc.
Metaphysician, psychologist, psycho-analyst, etc.
(Adjectives). Relating to intellect: intellectual, noetic, gnostic, mental, spiritual, subjective, metaphysical, psychical, psychological, noumenal, ghostly, immaterial 317, cerebral; subconscious, subliminal, Freudian.
Abstraction, contemplation, musing, reverie 458, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, inmost thoughts, selfcounsel, self - communing, self-examination, introspection; succession, flow, train, current, etc., of thought or of ideas, brain-wave.
Afterthought, second thoughts, reconsideration, retrospection, retrospect 505, examination, see Inquiry 461.
Thoughtfulness, pensiveness, intentness.
Telepathy, thought - transference, mind-reading.
(Verbs). To think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate, speculate, contemplate, meditate, introspect, ponder, muse, ruminate, think over, brood over, animadvert, con, con over, study, bend or apply the mind, digest, discuss, hammer at, puzzle out, weigh, perpend.
(Phrases). Take into account; take into consideration; to take counsel; to commune with oneself; to collect one's thoughts; to advise with one's pillow; to sleep on or over it; to chew the cud upon; revolve in the mind; turn over in the mind; to rack one's brains; to put on one's thinking-cap.
To harbour, entertain, cherish, nurture, etc., an idea, or a thought, a notion, a view, etc.
To occur, present itself, pass in the mind, suggest itself; to fancy, trow, dream of.
(Phrases). To flash on the mind; to flit across the view; to enter the mind; come into the head; come uppermost; run in one's head.
To make an impression; to sink or penetrate into the mind; fasten itself on the mind; to engross one's thoughts.