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contemplation, thoughtfulness, reflection, reflexion, meditation, rumination

n. a calm lengthy intent consideration

broody, brooding, reflective, pensive, contemplative, meditative, pondering, ruminative

adj. persistently or morbidly thoughtful

thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation

n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"

examination, examen

n. a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)

calculation, deliberation

n. planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting"

reverie, revery, brown study

n. an abstracted state of absorption

preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment, preoccupation

n. the mental state of being preoccupied by something

conjecture

n. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence

study, cogitation

n. attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"

attention

n. the faculty or power of mental concentration; "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention"

study

n. a state of deep mental absorption; "she is in a deep study"

thoughtfulness

n. the trait of thinking carefully before acting

conviction, strong belief

n. an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

approximation, estimate, estimation, idea

n. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"

feeling, impression, notion, belief

n. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"

persuasion, view, opinion, thought, sentiment

n. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"

n. a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people; "he asked for a poll of public opinion"

introspective, introverted

adj. given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

gloomy, dismal, sorry

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

preoccupied, bemused, deep in thought, lost in thought

adj. deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"

thinking, cogitative

adj. given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes"

considered, reasoned, well thought out

adj. resulting from careful thought; "the paper was well thought out"

deliberate

adj. marked by careful consideration or reflection; "a deliberate decision"

deliberative

adj. involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"

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