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Pensiveness

noun
1.
Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.  Synonym: brooding.
2.
Deep serious thoughtfulness.  Synonyms: contemplativeness, meditativeness.





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"Pensiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... presently, tripping through an alley in the low wood, with her eyes on the ground, and her whole carriage full of a sweet pensiveness which it did me good to see. I turned my back on the stream before she saw me, and made a pretence of being taken up with something in another direction. Doubtless she espied me soon, and before she came very near; but she ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... will relate to you, before we separate, one among the multitude of mine, as coming the nearest to the poetry of yours, and as having been not totally useless to me. Often have I reflected on it; sometimes with pensiveness, with ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


Words linked to "Pensiveness" :   meditativeness, melancholy, pensive, contemplativeness, thoughtfulness


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