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Meditation

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.

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Contemplation 76% connected

The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

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Musing 76% connected

of Muse

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Reflection 76% connected

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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Reflexion 76% connected

See Reflection.

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Rumination 76% connected

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

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Meditate 74% connected

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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Meditate 74% connected

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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Ponder 74% connected

To weigh.

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Ponder 74% connected

To weigh.

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Speculation 92% connected

The act of speculating.

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Admit verb · 78% connection

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were in…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Afterthought noun · 78% connection

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Allegory noun · 78% connection

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Attention noun · 78% connection

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Bethink verb · 78% connection

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a r…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Brood verb · 78% connection

To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought;…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Cogitation noun · 78% connection

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Cogitative adjective · 78% connection

Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Consideration noun · 78% connection

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Contemplative adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Epiploce noun · 78% connection

A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, bu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Furl verb · 78% connection

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or arou…

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Idea noun · 78% connection

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is concei…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Muse noun · 78% connection

Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Musingly adverb · 78% connection

In a musing manner.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Object verb · 78% connection

That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Pensive adjective · 78% connection

Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meditating, close, continued, thought, turning.
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Polygraph noun · 78% connection

An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse…

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