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cogitation

UK/ˌkɒd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/US/ˌkɑd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/

cogitation noun: the process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.

Noun

cogitation (countable and uncountable, plural cogitations)

  1. (uncountable) The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
  2. (countable) A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.

cogitation meaning in Urdu and Bengali

cogitation in Urdu

غور, تفکر

cogitation in Bengali

cogitation
ধ্যান dhên

Forms of cogitation

pluralcogitations

Origin of cogitation

Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

Questions about cogitation

What does cogitation mean?
Cogitation means the process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
What is cogitation in Urdu?
Cogitation in Urdu is غور, تفکر. See Cogitation meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cogitation?
Cogitation is a noun.
How do you pronounce cogitation?
Cogitation is pronounced /ˌkɒd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of cogitation?
The plural of cogitation is cogitations.

Words near cogitation in the dictionary

  1. cogitated
  2. cogitates
  3. cogitateth
  4. cogitating
  5. cogitatingly
  6. cogitation
  7. cogitations
  8. cogitative
  9. cogitatively
  10. cogitativeness
  11. cogitativity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cogitation (page history and authors); cogitation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ধ্যান (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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