Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being meditative; thought-fulness.
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- noun The quality of being
meditative .
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- noun deep serious thoughtfulness
Etymologies
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Examples
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The classical music, the way sound is used - the ragas (melodies), the talas (rhythms) - everything is such that if you get deeply involved in it, it will bring meditativeness.
Sadhguru: Spiritual Living: 7 Notes, 7 Chakras: Music, Spirituality and the Body (VIDEO) 2010
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The classical music, the way sound is used - the ragas (melodies), the talas (rhythms) - everything is such that if you get deeply involved in it, it will bring meditativeness.
Sadhguru: 7 Notes, 7 Chakras: Music, Spirituality and the Body (VIDEO) 2010
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Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of
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In an instant all the eyes of the assembly were cast, at the same time, upon us; and I remarked that the meditativeness and expectation increased in every face.
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The fault of the epoch is the absence of meditativeness.
Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Arnold Bennett 1899
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At times there was a deep meditativeness in the eye, again a dusky fire.
The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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At times there was a deep meditativeness in the eye, again a dusky fire.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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At times there was a deep meditativeness in the eye, again a dusky fire.
The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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For a few moments she said nothing, seeming to have become infected with her companion's dreamy meditativeness.
The Sign of the Spider Bertram Mitford 1884
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An intense meditativeness, a devotional ecstasy and an insight of true heavenly wisdom is the ideal of life to which the Hindu has been called from time very remote.
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