Pensiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pensiveness \Pen"sive*ness\, n.
     The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness;
     seriousness. --Hooker.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pensiveness
       n 1: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn: {brooding}]
       2: deep serious thoughtfulness [syn: {meditativeness}, {contemplativeness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "pensiveness":
     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