pensée
“pensée” is a French word. Its 11 meanings in English:
- a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246)
- reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century)
- the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200)
- manner of thinking (c. 1215)
- an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332)
- the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644)
- moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century)
- an operation of the mind (since 1636)
- idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621)
- thinking, worldview of an author
- a pansy (plant) (c. 1460)
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