meditation

[med-i-tey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of meditating.

2. continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation.

3. Transcendental Meditation.

4. devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection.

meditation

/ ˌmɛdɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of meditating; contemplation; reflection

2. contemplation of spiritual matters, esp as a religious practice

Word History and Origins

Origin of meditation¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; from Latin meditātiōn-, stem of meditātiō “contemplation, planning”; equivalent to meditate + -ion

Example Sentences

It’s an approach that’s endeared him to his star collaborators and yielded songs as deep as Adele’s “To Be Loved,” a stunning meditation on the costs of divorce from her 2021 album “30.”

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His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

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Wiggle Room is a symbiotic marriage of dance and meditation.

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Later in the record, “La Yugular” is a philosophical meditation on unity and oneness with lyrics in Spanish and Arabic, which suggests that the entire world might fit inside a haiku.

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Booker organisers described Flesh as "a meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculinity", and called it "a compelling portrait of one man, and the formative experiences that can reverberate across a lifetime".

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Related Words

• introspection 
• reflection 
• rumination 
• self-examination