pensiveness

Examples

• All

• Through his one good eye, and sunk in his pensiveness, Ted noticed none of this, but Jerry said, "Come on, it's a fine day."

  Fiction book (2001)

• Reyes's forbidding glower soon softened into pensiveness.

  Fiction book (1999)

• He caught the mixture of surprise and pensiveness in her voice and looked up immediately.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The still ball invites the players to join it in permanently pending pensiveness.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Its eye, directed toward mine, appeared truly sorrowful, with a degree of pensiveness that rendered me, at that moment, quite uneasy.

  Academic text (1995)

• Such suspension is a visceral form of conceptual pensiveness.

  Academic text (2016)

• We didn't speak of it to one another, but a pensiveness hung over us, tinged with orphan's melancholy, our resignation to permanent injury.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The endowments of intellect and somber pensiveness noted by Brendel and painted by Freud are not just products of biography or traits of personality, though surely they are both.

  Academic text (1999)

• Furthermore, just as it is important for the five viscera to be aligned with the cosmological pattern of the Five Phases, so it is equally important that the Five Emotions (happiness, anger, anxiety, pensiveness, and fear) are also aligned with the macrocosm.

  Academic text (2018)

• His pensiveness was evident as he gazed out the window, contemplating the future.

Synonyms

C

contemplation

vspensiveness

25 4.8

Thinking about something very carefully for a long time

is the ongoing inner state of serious thought rather than the act itself

M

meditation

vspensiveness

22 3.9

A long, deep period of thinking about serious ideas

is a mental state of deep thought rather than the active practice of thinking

T

thoughtfulness

vspensiveness

2 3.8

Careful, long attention to an idea before deciding

is the inward state of serious reflection, not necessarily decision focused

R

reflectiveness

vspensiveness

1 5.9

A quiet, careful way of thinking about something

is the specific mental state of deeply serious reflection rather than general manner

C

contemplativeness

vspensiveness

8.2

A long quiet time spent thinking deeply about something

is a state of deep serious thought that need not be prolonged

M

meditativeness

vspensiveness

8.3

A state of being quiet and thinking deeply

is the actual state of deep serious reflection rather than the general quality

R

reflectivity

vspensiveness

6.9

Attention to your own thoughts and feelings

is the experience of being in deep reflective thought rather than the capacity

I

introspectiveness

vspensiveness

8.5

Thinking carefully about your own thoughts and feelings

is broader, covering deep serious thought not limited to self examination

S

self-contemplation

vspensiveness

7.9

To think carefully about your own thoughts, feelings, and actions

is a more general state of deep serious thought not limited to self focus

Antonyms

L

lightheartedness

1 4.8

A cheerful, carefree feeling that makes people relax

How Reflective

brooding

3 7.2

rumination

5 7.4

pensiveness

7.5

reflectiveness

1 5.9

thoughtfulness

2 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology