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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydreaming |
| Synonyms: | introspection, meditation, pensiveness, pondering, reflection, reverie |
| Main Entry: | musing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absorption |
| Synonyms: | contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, thought |
| Main Entry: | muse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about, dream |
| Synonyms: | be lost in thought, brood, build castles in air, chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, feel, meditate, moon*, mull over, percolate, ponder, puzzle over, reflect, revolve, roll, ruminate, speculate, think, think over, turn over, weigh |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abstraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
| Synonyms: | absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | contemplation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought; planning |
| Synonyms: | ambition, cogitation, consideration, deliberation, design, intention, meditation, musing, plan, pondering, purpose, reflection, reverie, rumination, study |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard, neglect, rejection, slight |
| Main Entry: | contemplative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep in thought |
| Synonyms: | attentive, cogitative, in brown study, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking, thoughtful |
| Antonyms: | disdainful, disregarding, negligent, rejecting, scornful, shallow, unreflective |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
| Synonyms: | answer, assumption, cogitation, concluding, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, illation, inference, inferring, judgment, meditation, mulling, musing, opinion, pondering, ratiocination, reasoning, reflection, result, rumination, sequitur, speculation, thinking, thought |
| Antonyms: | confusion |
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