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rumination
noun
()
a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
Synonyms:
contemplation
,
musing
,
reflection
,
reflexion
,
thoughtfulness
,
rumination
noun
()
(of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
Examples:
Ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination.
rumination
noun
()
regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
Words Related to
rumination
!
musing
,
contemplation
,
meditation
,
reflection
,
reflexion
,
thoughtfulness
,
merycism
,
melancholy
,
cogitation
,
pensiveness
,
elegy
,
reminiscence
,
cri de coeur
,
wistfulness
,
ennui
,
threnody
,
paean
,
contemplations
,
disquisition
,
meditations
,
roundelay
,
solipsism
,
evocation
,
ephemerality
,
musings
,
plaintiveness
,
philosophizing
,
melancholia
,
misanthropy
,
brooding
,
inwardness
,
poetics
,
prose poem
,
purposelessness
,
melodrama
,
abjection
,
mordant
,
lonesomeness
,
introspection
,
catharses
,
reveries
,
memento mori
,
coda
,
shapelessness
,
finitude
,
solitariness
,
limns
,
ode
,
corporeality
,
talky
,
idealization
,
interiority
,
evanescence
,
ruefulness
,
distractedness
,
mournfulness
,
endlessness
,
sophoclean
,
riff
,
bildungsroman
,
immanence
,
lyricism
,
shavian
,
reflections
,
obsessions
,
loneliness
,
impermanence
,
romanticism
,
psychodrama
,
opus
,
moroseness
,
arioso
,
eroticism
,
polemic
,
didacticism
,
dirge
,
fugue
,
atonality
,
transcendence
,
tragicomedy
,
ponderousness
,
rhapsodies
,
drifty
,
phantasmagoria
,
concision
,
poesy
,
koans
,
aimlessness
,
indeterminacy
,
allegory
,
juvenilia
,
excursus
,
accelerando
,
moodiness
,
longueur
,
existentialism
,
chaconne
,
stimmung
,
apercus
,
playlet
,
rumination
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