philosophizeverb [ I ]
mainly disapproving UK usually philosophise uk/fɪˈlɒs.ə.faɪz/us/fɪˈlɑː.sə.faɪz/to talk for a long time about subjects such as the meaning of life:
Students, she complained, had nothing better to do than spend whole days philosophizing about the nature of truth.
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- jaw
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoot the breeze idiom
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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