Synonyms:
meditation, speculation
Meaning: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"
Usage examples
For a few minutes I remained wrapped in the profoundest meditation.
He sat in one corner, stretched his legs out on the front seat, and sank into meditation.
Diana and Mary's general answer to this question was a sigh, and some minutes of apparently mournful meditation.
The last little thing was a kind of "meditation," written very simply and performed quite seriously and unaffectedly.
The train flew on, and only at daybreak, when he was approaching Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from his meditation.
"But, land's sake, what could you expect?" she muttered to herself, after a sorrowful meditation before the kitchen fire.
After much meditation he decided to consult the king of the knooks, and going at once to his majesty he told him the whole story.
After lunch, for example, he spends an hour alone, and in this period of meditation the whole fateful panorama of the war passes before him.
How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams--the meditation of old times resumed --their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.