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pensiveness
noun as in abstraction
noun as in gloom
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in melancholy
noun as in mournfulness
Strong matches
- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- horror
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pessimism
- sadness
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
noun as in musing
Strong matches
noun as in reflection
noun as in reverie
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Example Sentences
“With the removal of TikTok, everything went away — followers, fame, income and offers,” he says, his tone pensive.
But Salvator was capable of pensiveness, of faith, and of fear.'
On the outside was a very suitable pensiveness, and affection for all that she was leaving.
Selim shivered all at once and woke up from his pensiveness.
Instead, they wore again the far-away look of dreamy pensiveness.
The pensiveness was a dove brooding on a secure peace; her eyes, gazing ahead, had the gravity of a childs seeing happy visions.
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On this page you'll find 265 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pensiveness, such as: absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, and contemplation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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