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pensiveness
noun as in abstraction
noun as in gloom
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noun as in melancholy
noun as in mournfulness
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- 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
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noun as in reflection
noun as in reverie
Example Sentences
Her self-aware, pensiveness glimmers against the soft strumming of guitars and strings in "I Hate It Here."
The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.
On tracks like “I Neva Seen” and “Enterprise,” it’s clear the body is in motion, but there’s an overlay of deep soothing and pensiveness, an almost new age energy.
That may well have affected these artists, who bring a combination of sublimity and pensiveness, wildness and spontaneity, to scores that span two decades of Beethoven’s career.
It’s a moment of isolation and pensiveness that is very grounded in being a true leader.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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