DECIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deciding mean? 

• DECIDING (noun)
  The noun DECIDING has 1 sense:

1. the cognitive process of reaching a decision

  Familiarity information: DECIDING used as a noun is very rare.

• DECIDING (adjective)
  The adjective DECIDING has 1 sense:

1. having the power or quality of deciding

  Familiarity information: DECIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process of reaching a decision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

deciding; decision making

Context example:

a good executive must be good at decision making

Hypernyms ("deciding" is a kind of...):

higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deciding"):

officiating; officiation; refereeing; umpirage (the act of umpiring)

determination (deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature)

eclectic method; eclecticism (making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style)

groupthink (decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility))

closure; resolution; settlement (something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making)

judgement; judging; judgment (the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions)

change of mind; flip-flop; reversal; turnabout; turnaround (a decision to reverse an earlier decision)

choice; pick; selection (the person or thing chosen or selected)

cull; reject (the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality)

alternative; choice; option (one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen)

Derivation:

decide (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)

decide (bring to an end; settle conclusively)

deciding (having the power or quality of deciding)

• DECIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the power or quality of deciding

Synonyms:

deciding; determinant; determinative; determining

Context example:

the determinative (or determinant) battle

Similar:

decisive (determining or having the power to determine an outcome)

Derivation:

deciding (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)

 Context examples 

Came the day when Grey Beaver, deciding that the liability of her running away was past, released Kiche.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If so, you may be picking up the pieces this month and deciding what you must do.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Before deciding that question I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This new study shows that this process – deciding that an object is present or that an event has occurred in the visual field – is handled by the superior colliculus.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

I'm so silly that I liked to think no one knew, and while I was deciding what to say, I felt like the girls in books, who have such things to do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This can help in figuring out who is at risk for certain diseases, finding ways to control diseases and deciding which diseases should be studied.

(Health Statistics, NIH)

A process in which a person is given important facts about a medical procedure or treatment, a clinical trial, or genetic testing before deciding whether or not to participate.

(Informed consent, NCI Dictionary)

Had he done as he intended, and as he knew he ought, by going down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might have been deciding his own happy destiny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But by deciding what end-of-life care best suits your needs when you are healthy, you can help those close to you make the right choices when the time comes.

(End of Life Issues, NIH)

He was not long in assuming that Brissenden knew everything, and in deciding that here was the second intellectual man he had met.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)