meditation
/mɛdɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action or practice of meditating: a life of meditation...
- We learn yoga and meditation but the practice slips away when you are caught up with work.
- So you can use the practices of yoga and meditation to find and establish your own way.
- Practice yoga, meditation or have a massage to help relieve tension and anxiety
Synonyms
contemplation, thought, thinking, musing, pondering, consideration, reflection, prayer, deliberation, study, rumination, cogitation, brooding, mulling over, reverie, brown study, concentration, speculation
rare cerebration
1.1 [count noun] A written or spoken discourse expressing considered thoughts on a subject: this is not a mythopoetic meditation on manhood, it’s a historical study...
- The writing, like much of Taylor's writing in the meditations, would be conventional if it were not so odd.
- It's that that makes the final poem in the meditations, written when he was eighty-one, so moving.
- Discussions will include meditations on what mark a city leaves on a film after its been shot on location, and vice versa.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin meditatio(n-), from meditari (see meditate).
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