meditation
Pronunciation: /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
The English word “meditation” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
- 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.
- A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
- A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
- Careful and thorough thought.
Etymology
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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