English noun: analytic thinking | |||
1. | analytic thinking (cognition) the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations | ||
Synonyms | analysis | ||
Broader (hypernym) | abstract thought, logical thinking, reasoning | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | breakdown, cost-benefit analysis, dissection, elimination, partitioning, reasoning by elimination, reductionism, systems analysis, trend analysis | ||
Antonyms | synthetic thinking, synthesis | ||