| Main Entry: | rumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, excogitation, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding |
| Main Entry: | cogitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought |
Synonyms: |
brainwork, cerebration, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, rumination, speculation |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | contemplation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought; planning |
Synonyms: |
ambition, cogitation, consideration, deliberation, design, intention, meditation, musing, plan, pondering, purpose, reflection, reverie, rumination, study |
Antonyms: |
disdain, disregard, neglect, rejection, slight |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
Synonyms: |
answer, assumption, cogitation, concluding, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, illation, inference, inferring, judgment, meditation, mulling, musing, opinion, pondering, ratiocination, reasoning, reflection, result, rumination, sequitur, speculation, thinking, thought |
Antonyms: |
confusion |
| Main Entry: | introspection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-analysis |
Synonyms: |
brooding, contemplation, deep thought, egoism, heart-searching, introversion, meditation, reflection, rumination, scrutiny, self-absorption, self-examination, self-observation, self-questioning, soul-searching |
| Main Entry: | meditation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contemplation |
Synonyms: |
concentration, deep thought, introspection, pondering, quiet time, reflection, rumination, self-examination |
| Main Entry: | reflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought, thinking |
Synonyms: |
absorption, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, idea, imagination, impression, meditation, musing, observation, opinion, pensiveness, pondering, rumination, speculation, study, view |
| Main Entry: | soul-searching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introspection |
Synonyms: |
contemplation, deep thought, heart-searching, meditation, reflection, rumination, self-analysis, self-examination, self-questioning |
| Main Entry: | study |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | learning, analysis |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, academic work, analyzing, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, cramming, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, memorizing, muse, musing, pondering, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, rumination, schoolwork, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing |
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, rumination, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding |
Antonyms: |
vacancy, vacuity |