pensive
adjective
dreamily or wistfully thoughtful.
pensiveness
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a word derived from
pensive.
Example Sentences
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Her self-aware, pensiveness glimmers against the soft strumming of guitars and strings in "I Hate It Here."
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
Tom Berenger, who plays Longstreet in the film, brilliantly emphasizes his character’s brooding, deep-eyed pensiveness.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023
The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
In any given conversation, her saucer eyes suggest a dozen different moods – pensiveness, outrage, hilarity.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018
But now she found that this unforeseen visit of Lucy had completely routed all business capacity in her mercurial son; fairly capsizing him again into, there was no telling what sea of pleasant pensiveness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
