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cogitation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | study |
| Type of | reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness, musing, contemplation |
| Has types | lucubration |
| Derivation | cogitate |
after much cogitation he rejected the offer.
Examples of cogitation
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The author's platoon, after some cogitation, finally came up with a solution.
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People who want to know your every cogitation and sign up for the privilege.
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The brooding cogitation of the poems certainly makes them well suited to speaking aloud.
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Second, couldn't all this cogitation be done at a cost of less than $3.5 trillion a year?
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We retreat from the gallery, head bowed, in boundless cogitation.
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Undercutting rational cogitation, a new interest in chance and random operations is introduced.
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After much thought and cogitation, we have now decided that we will be participating in the 2010-11 season.
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Hence a week of mastication, expectoration and cogitation.
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Creativity, for instance, rarely strikes in a flash but more typically results from steady cogitation.
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- A carefully considered thought about something; "his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook"
- Attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"
- (cogitate) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
- (cogitate) think: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
- Meditation is a holistic discipline during which time the practitioner trains his or her mind in order to realize some benefit.
- (cogitate) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply; To consider, to devise
- (Cogitations) unpleasant thought. After being assigned to an unpleasant fatigue, "However, I kept my cogitations to myself" (22).
- (cogitate) (v) to ponder or contemplate
