Definition of contemplation

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Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

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Studious :: Studious (a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative..
Active :: Active (a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman..
Study :: Study (v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
Contemplative :: Contemplative (a.) Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception..
Incorporeal :: Incorporeal (a.) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.
Contemplation :: Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
Resentment :: Resentment (n.) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
Contemplance :: Contemplance (n.) Contemplation.
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard..
Contemplant :: Contemplant (a.) Given to contemplation; meditative.
Muse :: Muse (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study..
Muse :: Muse (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
Retrospect :: Retrospect (n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
Cogitative :: Cogitative (a.) Given to thought or contemplation.
Run :: Run (v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
Cogitation :: Cogitation (n.) The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
Contemplatively :: Contemplatively (adv.) With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
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