WEIGHING
Dictionary entry overview: What does weighing mean? • WEIGHING (noun)
The noun WEIGHING has 1 sense:
1. careful consideration
Familiarity information: WEIGHING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WEIGHING (noun)
Meaning:
Careful consideration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
advisement; weighing; deliberation
Context example:
a little deliberation would have deterred them
Hypernyms ("weighing" is a kind of...):
consideration (the process of giving careful thought to something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weighing"):
think (an instance of deliberate thinking)
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