ABSTRACT THOUGHT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abstract thought mean? 

• ABSTRACT THOUGHT (noun)
  The noun ABSTRACT THOUGHT has 1 sense:

1. thinking that is coherent and logical

  Familiarity information: ABSTRACT THOUGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSTRACT THOUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thinking that is coherent and logical

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning

Hypernyms ("abstract thought" is a kind of...):

cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought; thought process (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abstract thought"):

analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

argument; argumentation; line; line of reasoning; logical argument (a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning)

conjecture (reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence)

deduction; deductive reasoning; synthesis (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

illation; inference (the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation)

anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

ratiocination (logical and methodical reasoning)

reasoning backward; regress (the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence)

synthesis; synthetic thinking (the combination of ideas into a complex whole)

 Context examples 

The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions.

(Dementia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It had lain fallow all his life so far as the abstract thought of the books was concerned, and it was ripe for the sowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)