Exact Match:
- pensiveness
- deep serious thoughtfulness
- persistent morbid meditation on a problem
Synonyms:
- absorption,
- abstraction,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- close study,
- concentration,
- contemplativeness,
- daydreaming,
- deep thought,
- dreamery,
- dreamfulness,
- dreaminess,
- dreaming,
- dreamlikeness,
- engrossment,
- fantasying,
- gentle melancholy,
- melancholia,
- melancholiness,
- melancholy,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- romantic melancholy,
- speculativeness,
- study,
- thoughtfulness,
- tristfulness,
- wistfulness
Related Words:
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- abstraction,
- application,
- brown study,
- close study,
- concentration,
- contemplation,
- contemplativeness,
- deep study,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- immersion,
- intentness,
- involvement,
- meditation,
- melancholy,
- monomania,
- musing,
- obsession,
- pensiveness,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- rapt attention,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- single-mindedness,
- speculativeness,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- thoughtfulness,
- wistfulness
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- dreamfulness,
- dreaminess,
- dreaming,
- dreamlikeness,
- engrossment,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- fit of abstraction,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupation,
- reverie,
- stargazing,
- study,
- trance,
- woolgathering
- brown study
collapse - a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- bad dream,
- bemusement,
- castle-building,
- close study,
- concentration,
- contemplativeness,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- deep thought,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dreaming,
- engrossment,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- fit of abstraction,
- incubus,
- melancholy,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- nightmare,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- speculativeness,
- stargazing,
- study,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- vision,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering
- reverie
collapse
- an abstracted state of absorption
- absentminded dreaming while awake related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- amnesia,
- bad dream,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- catalepsy,
- cataplexy,
- catatonic stupor,
- close study,
- concentration,
- contemplation,
- contemplativeness,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- daze,
- deep thought,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dream state,
- dreaming,
- engrossment,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- fit of abstraction,
- fugue,
- fugue state,
- hypnotic trance,
- incubus,
- meditation,
- melancholy,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- nightmare,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- reflectiveness,
- sleepwalking,
- somnambulism,
- speculativeness,
- stargazing,
- study,
- stupor,
- thought,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- vision,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed,
- absorption,
- abstracted,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- bemused,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- charmed,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- dreamful,
- dreamfulness,
- dreaminess,
- dreamlike,
- dreamlikeness,
- dreamy,
- dreamy-eyed,
- dreamy-souled,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- enchanted,
- engrossed,
- engrossment,
- entranced,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- faraway,
- fit of abstraction,
- half-awake,
- in a reverie,
- in a trance,
- in the clouds,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditative,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- museful,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- napping,
- nodding,
- oblivious,
- pensive,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- reverie,
- somewhere else,
- spellbound,
- spelled,
- stargazing,
- study,
- taken up,
- trance,
- tranced,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought
- thoughtfulness
collapse
- the trait of thinking carefully before acting related words >
- TLC,
- absorption,
- abstraction,
- accommodatingness,
- affability,
- agreeableness,
- amenity,
- anticipation,
- attention,
- attentiveness,
- brown study,
- care,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- circumspection,
- circumspectness,
- civility,
- close study,
- comity,
- complaisance,
- concentration,
- concern,
- considerateness,
- consideration,
- contemplativeness,
- cool judgment,
- courteousness,
- courtesy,
- decorousness,
- deep thought,
- deference,
- delicacy,
- demureness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- discrimination,
- earnestness,
- engrossment,
- forethought,
- formality,
- good judgment,
- gracefulness,
- graciousness,
- gravity,
- grimness,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- helpfulness,
- indulgence,
- judgment,
- judiciousness,
- leniency,
- long face,
- loving care,
- melancholy,
- mindfulness,
- musing,
- obligingness,
- pensiveness,
- policy,
- politeness,
- polity,
- preoccupation,
- preparedness,
- profound thought,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudentialism,
- reflection,
- reflectiveness,
- regard,
- regardfulness,
- respect,
- respectfulness,
- reverie,
- sedateness,
- seriousness,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- solemnity,
- solemnness,
- solicitousness,
- solicitude,
- somberness,
- sound judgment,
- soundness of judgment,
- speculativeness,
- staidness,
- straight face,
- study,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tender loving care,
- thought,
- toleration,
- urbanity,
- weighing,
- weightiness,
- wistfulness
- melancholia
collapse
- extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears related words >
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- alienation,
- anguish,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- bale,
- bitterness,
- bleeding heart,
- brain disease,
- broken heart,
- catatonic stupor,
- compulsion,
- crack-up,
- crushing,
- cyclothymia,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- detachment,
- elation,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional instability,
- emotionalism,
- euphoria,
- extremity,
- flatuous melancholia,
- folie du doute,
- functional nervous disorder,
- gentle melancholy,
- grief,
- heartache,
- heavy heart,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- indifference,
- infelicity,
- insanity,
- insensibility,
- involutional psychosis,
- lethargy,
- maladjustment,
- mania,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia attonita,
- melancholia religiosa,
- melancholiness,
- melancholy,
- mental disorder,
- mental distress,
- mental illness,
- misery,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- neurosis,
- obsession,
- paranoia,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pensiveness,
- personality disorder,
- preoccupation,
- problems in living,
- prostration,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- psychosis,
- reaction,
- romantic melancholy,
- sadness,
- schizophrenia,
- social maladjustment,
- stupor,
- stuporous melancholia,
- suicidal despair,
- tic,
- tristfulness,
- twitching,
- unresponsiveness,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- woe,
- wretchedness
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed,
- absorption,
- abstracted,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- advisement,
- bemused,
- bemusement,
- brooding,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- close study,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentration,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- consideration,
- contemplating,
- contemplation,
- contemplative,
- contemplativeness,
- counsel,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deep thought,
- deliberating,
- deliberation,
- deliberative,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- dreamfulness,
- dreaminess,
- dreaming,
- dreamlikeness,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- engrossment,
- excogitating,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- faraway,
- fit of abstraction,
- half-awake,
- ideative,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- introspective,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- lucubration,
- meditating,
- meditation,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- museful,
- musefulness,
- muted ecstasy,
- napping,
- nodding,
- noetic,
- oblivious,
- pensive,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupied,
- profound thought,
- rapt,
- reflecting,
- reflection,
- reflective,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- revolving,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- rumination,
- ruminative,
- serious,
- sober,
- somewhere else,
- speculation,
- speculative,
- speculativeness,
- stargazing,
- study,
- taken up,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- weighing,
- wistful,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought
- absorption
collapse
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
- (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium; "the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules" related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- ablation,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed attention,
- absorbency,
- absorbent,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- adsorbent,
- adsorption,
- application,
- assimilation,
- attrition,
- bemusement,
- bile,
- blotter,
- blotting,
- blotting paper,
- brown study,
- burning up,
- castle-building,
- chemisorption,
- chemosorption,
- close study,
- concentration,
- consumption,
- contemplation,
- contemplativeness,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- depletion,
- depth of thought,
- digestion,
- digestive system,
- drain,
- dream,
- dreaming,
- eating up,
- embarrassment,
- endosmosis,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- erosion,
- exhaustion,
- exosmosis,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- finishing,
- fit of abstraction,
- gastric juice,
- gastrointestinal tract,
- imbibing,
- immersion,
- implication,
- impoverishment,
- inclusion,
- infiltration,
- ingestion,
- intentness,
- intestinal juice,
- involution,
- involvement,
- liver,
- meditation,
- melancholy,
- monomania,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- obsession,
- osmosis,
- pancreas,
- pancreatic digestion,
- pancreatic juice,
- pensiveness,
- percolation,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- predigestion,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- rapt attention,
- reflectiveness,
- relation,
- reverie,
- saliva,
- salivary digestion,
- salivary glands,
- secondary digestion,
- seepage,
- single-mindedness,
- soaking-up,
- sorption,
- speculativeness,
- spending,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- squandering,
- stargazing,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- taking-in,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering
- melancholy
collapse
- a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" related words >
- absorption,
- abstraction,
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- atrabiliar,
- atrabilious,
- bale,
- beetle-browed,
- bitterness,
- black,
- black-browed,
- blase,
- bleeding heart,
- blue,
- blues,
- boredness,
- boredom,
- bouderie,
- broken heart,
- brown study,
- cheerless,
- cheerlessness,
- close study,
- concentration,
- contemplativeness,
- crestfallen,
- crushing,
- dark,
- deep thought,
- dejected,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- desperation,
- despondency,
- despondent,
- discomposing,
- disconsolate,
- disconsolateness,
- dismal,
- dispirited,
- dispiritedness,
- disquieting,
- disturbing,
- doleful,
- dolor,
- dolorous,
- dour,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- downheartedness,
- dreary,
- dumpish,
- dumpishness,
- dumps,
- engrossment,
- ennui,
- extremity,
- fed-up,
- fed-upness,
- forlorn,
- frowning,
- funereal,
- funky,
- gentle melancholy,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- glumness,
- good and tired,
- grief,
- grim,
- grimness,
- grum,
- grumness,
- heartache,
- heartbroken,
- heavy heart,
- heavyhearted,
- heavyheartedness,
- infelicity,
- irked,
- jaded,
- jadedness,
- joyless,
- lachrymose,
- lamentable,
- life-weariness,
- life-weary,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- lugubriousness,
- melancholia,
- melancholic,
- melancholiness,
- miserable,
- miserableness,
- misery,
- moanful,
- moodiness,
- moodish,
- moodishness,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- mopishness,
- morose,
- moroseness,
- mournful,
- mournfulness,
- mumpish,
- musing,
- pensive,
- pensiveness,
- perturbing,
- plaintive,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- prostration,
- reflective,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- romantic melancholy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- saddening,
- sadness,
- satiated,
- satiation,
- satiety,
- scowling,
- sick,
- sick of,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sorrow,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowfulness,
- sorry,
- speculativeness,
- spleen,
- splenetic,
- study,
- suicidal despair,
- sulkiness,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- sullenness,
- surliness,
- surly,
- taedium vitae,
- tedium,
- thoughtful,
- thoughtfulness,
- tired,
- tired of,
- tired of living,
- tired to death,
- tiredness,
- triste,
- tristful,
- tristfulness,
- unhappiness,
- unhappy,
- wailful,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- wearifulness,
- weariness,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- wistful,
- wistfulness,
- woe,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- woefulness,
- world-weariness,
- world-weary,
- wretchedness
- abstraction
collapse
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorption,
- abstract,
- abstract idea,
- abstractedness,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- altarpiece,
- analysis,
- annexation,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- appropriation,
- bemusement,
- block print,
- boosting,
- bromide,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- catatonic stupor,
- cliche,
- close study,
- collage,
- color print,
- commonplace,
- compulsion,
- concentration,
- contemplativeness,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- copy,
- cyclorama,
- daub,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- deduction,
- deep thought,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of thought,
- detachment,
- diptych,
- disarticulation,
- disassociation,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuity,
- disengagement,
- disjointing,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- disunion,
- division,
- divorce,
- divorcement,
- doctrinairism,
- doctrinality,
- doctrinarity,
- dream,
- dreaming,
- elation,
- embezzlement,
- emotionalism,
- engraving,
- engrossment,
- erosion,
- euphoria,
- explanation,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- filching,
- fit of abstraction,
- folie du doute,
- fraud,
- fresco,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- graft,
- hackneyed expression,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- icon,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- image,
- incoherence,
- indifference,
- insensibility,
- isolation,
- lethargy,
- liberation,
- lieu commun,
- lifting,
- likeness,
- locus communis,
- luxation,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mental distress,
- mere theory,
- miniature,
- montage,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- mosaic,
- mural,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- obsession,
- panorama,
- parting,
- partition,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pensiveness,
- photograph,
- picture,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- platitude,
- poaching,
- preoccupation,
- print,
- profound thought,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- purification,
- refinement,
- reflectiveness,
- removal,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- reverie,
- scrounging,
- segmentation,
- separation,
- separatism,
- shoplifting,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- speculation,
- speculativeness,
- stained glass window,
- stargazing,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- stencil,
- still life,
- study,
- stupor,
- subdivision,
- subduction,
- sublation,
- subtraction,
- sweeping statement,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- tableau,
- taking away,
- tapestry,
- theft,
- theoretic,
- theoretical basis,
- theoretics,
- theoria,
- theoric,
- theorization,
- theory,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- thoughtfulness,
- tic,
- tired cliche,
- trance,
- triptych,
- truism,
- twitching,
- unresponsiveness,
- wall painting,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- woolgathering,
- zoning
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