synthetic thinking

1. 1.

   the combination of ideas into a complex whole

   Synonymssynthesis

   Broaderreasoning

Questions about synthetic thinking

What does synthetic thinking mean?

synthetic thinking means "the combination of ideas into a complex whole".

What is another word for synthetic thinking?

Close synonyms include synthesis. 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 synthetic thinking a common word?

synthetic 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.