2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Tending not to think ¹
3. Noun. Not thinking; the absence of thought. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonthinking
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonthinking
Literary usage of Nonthinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Bleuler has entered a formal protest to the extent of a well thought out book
against the prevailing type of thinking or nonthinking which has too long ..."
2. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1911)
"not, however, between a thinking and a corporeal nature, but only between a
thinking and a nonthinking nature. With this Locke leaves the empirical sphere, ..."
3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"... the soul as a thinking and unextended entity, and second, matter as an extended
and nonthinking reality. The Cartesian system found the point of contact ..."
4. The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil. By Mr. De Rapin by Rapin de Thoyras (Paul), M. Rapin de Thoyras (1728)
"... he retired, nonthinking proper to attack him in tha: Port. The hafty Retreat
of King Charlis before nn Enemy Chir! ..."
5. Methodist Review (1898)
"Even as we are stabbed by those who announce themselves as the enlightened and
the civilized and label us as the " nonthinking part of the nation," so they ..."
Other Resources:
