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meditation - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | meditation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contemplation |
| Synonyms: | concentration, deep thought, introspection, reflection, pondering, quiet time, rumination, self-examination |
| Main Entry: | cogitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought |
| Synonyms: | consideration, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, speculation, brainwork, cerebration, rumination |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | debate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion of issues; consideration |
| Synonyms: | agitation, altercation, argument, cogitation, contention, contest, controversy, deliberation, dialectic, disputation, dispute, forensic, hassle, match, meditation, reflection, tiff, words, wrangle, argumentation, blah-blah, controverting, mooting, polemic, rebutting, refuting |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
| Main Entry: | deliberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serious thought, discussion |
| Synonyms: | application, attention, calculation, care, caution, cogitation, conference, consideration, consultation, debate, forethought, heed, meditation, prudence, purpose, rap, reflection, speculation, study, ventilation, wariness, brainwork, carefulness, cerebration, circumspection, confabulation, ratiocination |
| Main Entry: | introspection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-analysis |
| Synonyms: | contemplation, deep thought, egoism, meditation, reflection, scrutiny, soul-searching, brooding, heart-searching, introversion, rumination, self-absorption, self-examination, self-observation, self-questioning |
| Main Entry: | reverie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydream |
| Synonyms: | absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castle-building, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess, dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention, meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe dream*, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | nightmare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soul-searching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introspection |
| Synonyms: | contemplation, deep thought, meditation, reflection, heart-searching, rumination, self-analysis, self-examination, self-questioning |
| Main Entry: | study |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | learning, analysis |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, muse, musing, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing, academic work, analyzing, cramming, memorizing, pondering, rumination, schoolwork |
| Main Entry: | lateral thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | problem-solving heuristic |
| Synonyms: | intuition, meditation, association of ideas, idea association, intuitive reason, word association |
| Notes: | lateral thinking is illogical; vertical thinking is logical |
| Main Entry: | musing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
| Synonyms: | contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, thought |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
| Synonyms: | cogitation, cognition, contemplation, deliberation, idea, introspection, judgment, logic, meditation, musing, opinion, reason, reasoning, reflection, study, understanding, cerebration, ideation, rationalization, rumination |
| Main Entry: | deep thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profound thinking |
| Synonyms: | absorption, concentration, contemplation, meditation, preoccupation, reflection, study, engrossment, profound thought |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | appreciation, apprehension, clue, cognition, comprehension, conceit, concept, consideration, considering, design, dreaming, explanation, exposition, fancy, image, impression, inkling, interpretation, meditation, musing, notion, perception, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculation, thought, version, apperception, cogitating, communing, concentrating, deliberating, envisaging, fancying, imagining, intellection, meditating, mental grasp, philosophizing, speculating |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | contemplation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought; planning |
| Synonyms: | ambition, cogitation, consideration, deliberation, design, intention, meditation, musing, plan, purpose, reflection, reverie, study, pondering, rumination |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard, neglect, rejection, slight |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
| Synonyms: | answer, assumption, cogitation, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, inference, judgment, meditation, musing, opinion, reasoning, reflection, result, speculation, thinking, thought, concluding, illation, inferring, mulling, pondering, ratiocination, rumination, sequitur |
| Antonyms: | confusion |
| Main Entry: | reflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought, thinking |
| Synonyms: | absorption, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, speculation, study, view, brainwork, cerebration, pensiveness, pondering, rumination |
| Main Entry: | speculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory, guess |
| Synonyms: | belief, cogitation, conjecture, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, hunch, hypothesis, meditation, opinion, reflection, review, shot, shot in the dark*, stab, supposition, surmise, thinking, thought, weighing, brainwork, cerebration, excogitation, guesstimate, guesswork, sneaking suspicion, stab in the dark, studying |
| Antonyms: | fact, information, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, attention, cogitation, cognition, consideration, considering, contemplation, deduction, deliberation, discerning, heed, hope, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, thinking, understanding, apprehending, brainwork, cerebration, concluding, deducing, deriving, ideation, inducing, inferring, rationalization, rationalizing, rumination, theorization |
| Antonyms: | vacancy, vacuity |
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