analytic thinking

Questions about analytic thinking

What does analytic thinking mean?

analytic thinking means "the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations".

What is another word for analytic thinking?

Close synonyms include analysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is analytic thinking a common word?

analytic thinking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.