lucubration
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- noun
- /luːˈkjuːbreɪʃən/
- Archaic
- The professor's published lucubration on climate change emphasized the urgency of action.
Examples
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It's like a tax that must be paid in order to obtain the necessary permission to elucidate our lucubrations.
Academic text (2007) -
After hours of lucubration, she finally completed her thesis.
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His late-night lucubration on ancient philosophy opened new perspectives for his students.
Synonyms
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The act of writing books, poems, or other creative works
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Deep, quiet thinking or a short thoughtful essay
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Talking or writing for a long time with many details
A written work made after long, careful study, often late at night
Putting ideas on paper or a screen so they are recorded
Antonyms
How Scholarly
Surface Forms
Morphology
lucubration = lucubrate (opaque) = lucubr + ation
The stem 'lucubr-' is not a productive or familiar English morpheme and the learned sense 'night study/writing' is not derivable by an average learner from the components.
Etymology
Lucubration comes from the old Latin word lucubrare, which meant 'to work by lamp' and has the root luc- meaning 'light'. So a lucubration is serious, often late-night study or a long piece of writing produced by hard, late work.