meditations

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
2. Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
   • Free-associating on paper is valuable—letting loose, as I described in the last chapter, and writing whatever you feel like writing, any way you want. It’s valuable when you’re learning to write to help you deal with fear, and it continues to be a useful technique for starting a piece of writing or...2007 [1995], Richard Rhodes, How to Write: Advice and Reflections, e-book edition, HarperCollins, pages 18-19
3. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
   • Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
4. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
5. Careful and thorough thought.
   • deep meditation

   Synonyms:

   cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, mulling, musing, pondering, reflection, rethinking, reconsideration, rumination