meditation
A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
Noun 4 meanings
A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
“Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.”
A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
Etymology
From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
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MEDITATION at a glance
MEDITATION has 10 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (M 3 + E 1 + D 2 + I 1 + T 1 + A 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,595 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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