meditation
Meanings
Plural: meditations
Noun
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"
- (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)
- A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
- Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
- A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
- A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
- Careful and thorough thought.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
Synonyms
cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, mulling, musing, pondering, reconsideration, reflection, rethinking, rumination, speculation, thought
Scrabble Score: 13
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