Meditation

Noun

 * 1) A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation
 * 2) A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

Related terms

 * meditate
 * meditative
 * meditativeness
 * premeditation

Adjectives for Meditation
profound; portentous; heavenly; important; threadbare; silent; devout; thoughtless; restless; solemn; pensive; starred; whimsical; crude; fearful; plotting; holy; rapid; sullen; lofty; numerous (pi); serene; reconstructive; continual.

Verbs for Meditation
abide in—; absorb in—; bathe in—; build in—; discern through—; draw from—; fall into—; fix in—; immerse in—; neglect—; recall in—; recess in—; recline in—; shroud in—; spend in—; steep in—; wander in—; weave in—; wrap in—; —ensures; — nurses; —solaces; —strengthens.

Thesaurus
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, a wise passiveness, absorbed attention, absorption, advisement, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, brooding, chaplet, collect, communion, concentration, consideration, contemplation, contemplative life, counsel, deep study, deep thought, deliberation, devotions, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, engagement, engrossment, entreaty, grace, idleness, immersion, immobility, impetration, imploration, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, intentness, intercession, invocation, involvement, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, litany, lucubration, monomania, musing, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obsecration, obsession, obtestation, orison, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, petition, policy, pondering, prayer, prayer wheel, preoccupation, procrastination, profound thought, quiescence, quietism, rapt attention, reflection, revolving, rogation, rosary, rumination, silent prayer, single-mindedness, speculation, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, studiousness, study, submersion, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, weighing

Etymology
From meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditari:, itself from.

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:


 * Malayalam: ധ്യാനം
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:, overpeinzing
 * Hungarian:
 * Malayalam: ചിന്ത


 * Polish:
 * Russian:, раздумье, размышление


 * : 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
 * : meditato
 * : περισυλλογή
 * : περισυλλογή
 * : περισυλλογή


 * : 黙想 (もくそう, mokusō)
 * : 명상 (myeongsang)
 * : 명상 (myeongsang)

Noun

 * 1) meditation
 * 2) pondering

Etymology
From meditere:, from meditor:.