Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being contemplative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
contemplative .
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- noun deep serious thoughtfulness
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Examples
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Passion had given place to a certain studied calm, a sort of inward contemplativeness which is ever inseparable from the true artist.
The New Tenant 1906
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“The idea,” according to Olmsted, “being to suggest and imply leisure, contemplativeness and happy tranquility.”
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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“The idea,” according to Olmsted, “being to suggest and imply leisure, contemplativeness and happy tranquility.”
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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“The idea,” according to Olmsted, “being to suggest and imply leisure, contemplativeness and happy tranquility.”
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Unlike the screen, the page promotes contemplativeness.
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Pa's broodings were as customary to them as the absorbed contemplativeness of a baby.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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Tent life has attuned these Semitic nomads to contemplativeness.
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But this period of visions, of abstractions, of pure contemplativeness was of short duration.
The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900
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The first horror past, his mind took on a strange contemplativeness; fear of death gave way to mild curiosity as to the manner of it.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Cytherea's mind ran on to the succeeding lines of the poem, and their startling harmony with the present situation suggested the fancy that he was 'sporting' with her, and brought an awkward contemplativeness to her face.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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