contemplative
adjective
given to or characterized by contemplation.
contemplativeness
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a word derived from
contemplative.
Example Sentences
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On the latter, Abts plays with a fury fit for the rage of the lyrics, and Haynes takes the mid-song breakdown from contemplativeness with bluesy licks into full blown rage.
From Salon ● May 16, 2019
I think baseball management needs to work to restore some of the contemplativeness of baseball.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2018
Frederick Law Olmsted, for instance, wrote that curved streets “imply leisure, contemplativeness, and happy tranquility,” while straight streets connote “eagerness to press forward, without looking to the right or left.”
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
The guitarist composed the 17 typically genre-mingling tracks in seclusion, but this gifted band fires up the contemplativeness of the originals with a sympathetic energy fuelled by both classical and improv approaches.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
The first horror past, his mind took on a strange contemplativeness; fear of death gave way to mild curiosity as to the manner of it.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson
