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Contemplativeness

noun
1.
Deep serious thoughtfulness.  Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness.






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"Contemplativeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... descriptive speakers will—as unconsciously to wreathe his form and sidelong crest his head, till he all but seemed the creature described. Meantime, the stranger regarded him with little surprise, apparently, though with much contemplativeness of a ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville

... southern face of the Himmaleh range; of the "gooseberry, raspberry, strawberry," which from an imminent temperate zone overlook the torrid plains. So did this active modern life have even then a foothold and lurking-place in the midst of the stateliness and contemplativeness of those Eastern plains. In another era the "lily of the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain, and bloom in a level zone of their own reaching round the earth. Already has the era of the temperate zone arrived, the era of the pine ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau



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