meditation
nounEtymology
From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
- derived from *med-✻
- derived from meditatio
- derived from meditacion
Definitions
A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as…
Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
- Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
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A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
Careful and thorough thought.
- deep meditation
- in meditation
- He was lost in careful meditation on how best to proceed when a sudden phone call forced him to decide.
The neighborhood
- neighbormeditate
- neighbormeditative
- neighbormeditationist
- neighbormeditativeness
- neighborpremeditation
- neighbormentation
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at meditation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at meditation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at meditation
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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