To take careful thought or think carefully about; to ponder.
to ponder or meditate on usually intently
intransitive verb : to meditate deeply or intently <cogitating on her career plans>
After much cogitation Mathew resolved to go to Samuel Lawson's store instead of William Blair's. --Anne of Green Gables, page 197
The word thought as a mental process has the synonyms cogitation, cognition, consideration, introspection, meditation, reasoning, or reflection.(for other synonyms, see the related link)
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THOUGHT : the mental process of cogitation or imagination
pondered, wondered, contemplated, deliberation.It depends on how it's being used. What part of speech?Cogitation.
Are you talking about daydreaming? - cogitation, contemplation, preoccupation, musing, reverie, pondering, reflecting, ruminating...
of Think, Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being., The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/reflection absorption, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, pensiveness, pondering, rumination, speculation, study, view
of Think, imp. & p. p. of Think., The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation., Meditation; serious consideration., That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention., Solicitude; anxious care; concern., A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
anticipation, apprehending, attention, brain-work, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, rumination, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding
of Think, imp. & p. p. of Think., The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation., Meditation; serious consideration., That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention., Solicitude; anxious care; concern., A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
42. This was the question posed to a super computer, Deep Thought by name, with a brain the size of a planet and after zillions of years of cogitation, the above was the answer given to the question.