brooding vs well-founded

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

well-founded

adj
  • Properly substantiated. 

  • Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement. 

  • Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation. 

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