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meditation.

A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.

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Meaning & usage

noun/mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
  1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.

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  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.

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  3. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

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    Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
  4. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.

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  5. Careful and thorough thought.

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    deep meditation
    in meditation
Where this word comes from

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

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