different between meditativeness vs meditation

English

Etymology

meditative +? -ness

Noun

meditativeness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being meditative.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     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 Bowditch in his head.

English

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of medit?r? (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
2. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
3. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.

Related terms

• meditate
• meditative
• meditativeness
• premeditation

Translations

Anagrams

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Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin medit?r? (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meditasjo?n/, [med?it?a??o??n]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

1. meditation
2. pondering

Inflection

See also

• meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da