meditativeness
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8.3
- noun
- /ˌmɛdɪˈteɪtɪvnəs/
- Many people appreciate the meditativeness of nature, often finding peace while hiking in the mountains.
Examples
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Although Lane continues to "circle" his mother's absence in Last Water Song (65), the later poems retain the meditativeness of There Is a Season and reflect on "what the wound remembers" rather than the dilemmas of recovery.
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The meditativeness of her thoughts allowed her to find clarity amidst the chaos.
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Practicing yoga promotes a sense of meditativeness that helps calm the mind and improve focus.
Synonyms
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Thinking about something very carefully for a long time
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Careful, long attention to an idea before deciding
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A quiet, careful way of thinking about something
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A quiet state of deep, serious thinking
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6.9
Attention to your own thoughts and feelings
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A long quiet time spent thinking deeply about something
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Thinking carefully about your own thoughts and feelings
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9.9
A state of being deeply lost in thought and not noticing things around you
How Meditative
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
meditativeness = meditative (transparent) = meditate + ive + ness
Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to 'meditative', yielding the state or quality of being meditative; 'meditative' itself is transparently from 'meditate' + '-ive'.
Etymology
The word meditativeness comes from the verb meditate, which comes from a Latin word that means 'to think deeply'. You can also see the same root in meditation, so meditativeness is the quality of being quiet and deeply thoughtful.