ANALYTIC THINKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analytic thinking mean? 

• ANALYTIC THINKING (noun)
  The noun ANALYTIC THINKING has 1 sense:

1. the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

  Familiarity information: ANALYTIC THINKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALYTIC THINKING (noun)

Meaning:

The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

analytic thinking; analysis

Hypernyms ("analytic thinking" is a kind of...):

abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning (thinking that is coherent and logical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "analytic thinking"):

breakdown; partitioning (an analysis into mutually exclusive categories)

cost-benefit analysis (an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs)

dissection (a minute and critical analysis)

elimination; reasoning by elimination (analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives)

reductionism (the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents)

systems analysis (analysis of all aspects of a project along with ways to collect information about the operation of its parts)

trend analysis (analysis of changes over time)