noun
meditation
Sustained reflective thought about a subject.
Her meditation on forgiveness leads her to reconsider an old argument.
Etymology
Latin meditatio means reflection or consideration. This sense preserves the practice of sustained thought, without necessarily implying a particular spiritual technique.
More examples
- The difficult decision calls for careful meditation, not a quick answer.
- The essay offers a meditation on friendship and loss.
- His meditations on childhood fill several pages of his journal.
Forms
meditation · meditations
meditate verb — To think deeply about a subject.
meditative adjective — Showing or involving deep, sustained thought.
Similar words
- reflection
- Can be brief, unlike the sustained thought meditation suggests.
- rumination
- Suggests repeatedly revisiting thoughts, often about worries or problems.