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Critical Thinking Words

Words related to critical thinking.

Below is a massive list of critical thinking words - that is, words related to critical thinking. The top 4 are: evidence , reasoning , rational and thought . You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with critical thinking, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common critical thinking terms by using the menu below, and there's also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get critical thinking words starting with a particular letter. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. So for example, you could enter "evidence" and click "filter", and it'd give you words that are related to critical thinking and evidence.

You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to critical thinking, then there's probably no need for this.

There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related , or even loosely associated words. So although you might see some synonyms of critical thinking in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with critical thinking - you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a critical thinking vocabulary list, or just a general critical thinking word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as critical thinking (though it still might be handy for that).

If you're looking for names related to critical thinking (e.g. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. The results below obviously aren't all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. If your pet/blog/etc. has something to do with critical thinking, then it's obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with critical thinking.

If you don't find what you're looking for in the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and it's not displaying critical thinking related words, please send me feedback using this page. Thanks for using the site - I hope it is useful to you! 🐪

• egocentrism
• metacognition
• kerry s. walters
• rationality
• epistemology
• sociocentrism
• information
• imagination
• credibility
• corrective feedback
• socratic questioning
• self-directedness
• inquisitiveness
• operational definition
• intelligence
• general certificate of education
• logical reasoning
• internalization
• deductive reasoning
• abductive reasoning
• inductive reasoning
• gettysburg college
• intellectual virtue
• educational
• pseudoscience
• educational system
• psychological
• misinformation
• objectivity
• advanced level
• cambridge international examinations
• advanced extension award
• contextualism
• assessment and qualifications alliance
• thinking skills assessment
• biomedical admissions test
• north carolina state university
• stem fields
• scientific skepticism
• scott lilienfeld
• cold reading
• theory of justification
• reflective practice
• cognitive psychology
• international day for tolerance
• human rights education
• teachings and philosophy of swami vivekananda

That's about all the critical thinking related words we've got! I hope this list of critical thinking terms was useful to you in some way or another. The words down here at the bottom of the list will be in some way associated with critical thinking, but perhaps tenuously (if you've currenly got it sorted by relevance, that is). If you have any feedback for the site, please share it here , but please note this is only a hobby project, so I may not be able to make regular updates to the site. Have a nice day! 🐉

Synonyms of thinking

• as in reasoning
• as in meditation
• as in believing
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Thesaurus Definition of thinking

 (Entry 1 of 3)

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intelligent
• intellectual
• cognitional
• levelheaded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unreasonable
• nonrational
• unintelligent
• unreasoning
• nonthinking
• nonsensical
• thickheaded
• half - witted

Thesaurus Definition of thinking  (Entry 2 of 3)

• contemplation
• retrospection
• consciousness
• total recall
• understanding
• recollection
• hypermnesia
• comprehension
• reminiscence
• remembrance
• apprehension
• forgetfulness

Thesaurus Definition of thinking  (Entry 3 of 3)

• considering
• presupposing
• questioning
• distrusting
• mistrusting
• discrediting
• disbelieving

Examples Sentences

• Kambole Campbell, IndieWire , 5 Nov. 2024
• Teri Sforza, Orange County Register , 5 Nov. 2024
• Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 21 Oct. 2024
• Jim Osman, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2024
• Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine , 11 Nov. 2024
• Eladio B. Bobadilla / Made by History, TIME , 5 Nov. 2024
• Laura Parker, Forbes , 30 Oct. 2024
• Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com , 29 Oct. 2024
• Erik Kain, Forbes , 3 Oct. 2024
• Dileep Rao, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2024
• Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine , 6 Nov. 2024
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2024
• Randy McMullen, The Mercury News , 13 Nov. 2024
• Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press , 6 Nov. 2024
• Quartz Bot, Quartz , 14 Nov. 2024

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Cite this Entry

“Thinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinking. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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