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.
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.