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Pensiveness

Pensiveness Meaning & Definition
Pensiveness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pensiveness?

[n] deep serious thoughtfulness
[n] persistent morbid meditation on a problem

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pensiveness: brooding | contemplativeness | meditativeness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pensiveness: absorption | abstraction | brown study | castle-building | close study | concentration | contemplativeness | daydreaming | deep thought | dreamery | dreamfulness | dreaminess | dreaming | dreamlikeness | engrossment | fantasying | gentle melancholy | melancholia | melancholiness | melancholy | musefulness | musing | pipe-dreaming | preoccupation | profound thought | reflectiveness | reverie | romantic melancholy | speculativeness | study | thoughtfulness | tristfulness | wistfulness

See Also | melancholy | thoughtfulness

Pensiveness In Webster's Dictionary

\Pen"sive*ness\, n. The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. --Hooker.

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