soul-searching vs think

soul-searching

noun
  • Probing introspection; a critical consideration of one's conscience; also, an instance of such consideration. 

adj
  • Involving probing introspection, or a critical consideration of one's conscience, especially motives and values. 

think

noun
  • An act of thinking; consideration (of something). 

verb
  • To ponder, to go over in one's head. 

  • To guess; to reckon. 

  • To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. 

  • To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as. 

  • To presume; to venture. 

  • To seem, to appear. 

  • To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on). 

  • To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something). 

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