'Meditation' definitions:
Definition of 'meditation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge" [syn: meditation, speculation]
noun
(religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)
Definition of 'Meditation'
From: GCIDE
- Meditation \Med`i*ta"tion\, n. [OE. meditacioun, F. m['e]ditation, fr. L. meditatio.]
- 1. The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. [1913 Webster]
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. --Ps. xix. 14. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Thought; -- without regard to kind. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- With wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'meditation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a wise passiveness,
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- advisement,
- aid prayer,
- Angelus,
- appeal,
- application,
- Ave,
- Ave Maria,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- beseechment,
- bidding prayer,
- breviary,
- brooding,
- chaplet,
- collect,
- communion,
- concentration,
- consideration,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- counsel,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- deliberation,
- devotions,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- entreaty,
- grace,
- Hail Mary,
- idleness,
- immersion,
- immobility,
- impetration,
- imploration,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- intentness,
- intercession,
- invocation,
- involvement,
- Kyrie Eleison,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- litany,
- lucubration,
- monomania,
- musing,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obsecration,
- obsession,
- obtestation,
- orison,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- Paternoster,
- petition,
- policy,
- pondering,
- prayer,
- prayer wheel,
- preoccupation,
- procrastination,
- profound thought,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- rapt attention,
- reflection,
- revolving,
- rogation,
- rosary,
- rumination,
- silent prayer,
- single-mindedness,
- speculation,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- suit,
- supplication,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting,
- weighing