Chiefly Scottish. Thoughtfulness, meditation; spec. anxious reflection, brooding, care.

Meditativeness, pensiveness; reflectiveness.

The condition or quality of being reflexive (in various senses).

Thoughtfulness, discretion, prudence. Obsolete.

The state or quality of being reflective (in various senses); esp. thoughtfulness, contemplativeness; an instance of this.

The quality or state of being contemplative; meditativeness.

The condition of being meditative.

figurative. The action of sinking or being driven into obscurity, esp. by being absorbed into a greater whole; becoming or making something…

A state of brooding or mental contemplation, esp. in a brood.