pensée

noun

pen·​sée

päⁿˈsā

plural -s

1

: a thought expressed in literary form

not a system of ethics at all but simply a collection of maxims and pensées

—J. C. Ransom

2

: pansy sense 2

Word History

Etymology

in sense 1, from French, from Pensées (1670), literary work by Blaise Pascal †1662 French scientist and philosopher; in sense 2, from French, from Middle French

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