Definition for Contemplation:

• The act of contemplating; meditation.

Synonyms for Contemplation:

• n.

  •
  • consecrate,
  • circumcision,
  • blessing,
  • confession,
  • circumcise,
  • bless.
  •
  • introspection,
  • focus,
  • sight,
  • forethought,
  • soul-searching,
  • see,
  • regard,
  • assessment.
  •abstraction (noun)
  • pre-occupation,
  • pre occupation,
  • ruminatings,
  • pre occupations,
  • entrancements,
  • reflectings,
  • pre-occupations,
  • pensivenesses.
  •act (noun)
  • contemplation.
  •anticipation (noun)
  • out-looks,
  • out-look,
  • fore tastes,
  • out look,
  • pre-conception,
  • pre sciences,
  • pre sentiments,
  • fore-sights,
  • fore sight,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • pre monition,
  • pre conceptions,
  • pre sentiment,
  • pro-mises,
  • fore-tastes,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre science,
  • high hope,
  • fore taste,
  • pre monitions,
  • fore sights,
  • out looks,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • pre-monitions,
  • looking forwards,
  • pro-mise,
  • pro mise,
  • pro mises,
  • pre-sciences,
  • fore-taste,
  • pre-science,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • pre conception,
  • fore-sight.
  •attention (noun)
  • immersion,
  • heedfulness,
  • intentness,
  • industry.
  •consideration (noun)
  • fore-thoughts,
  • re-gard,
  • re view,
  • ex aminations,
  • re views,
  • ex-aminations,
  • re-views,
  • ex-amination,
  • re gards,
  • fore-thought,
  • ex amination,
  • fore thoughts,
  • re-view,
  • fore thought.
  •contemplation (noun)
  • thoughtfulness,
  • reflexion.
  •deduction (noun)
  • concludings,
  • sequiturs,
  • mullings,
  • inferrings.
  •deep thought (noun)
  • profound thoughts,
  • deep-thought.
  •deep thought; planning (noun)
  • design,
  • intention,
  • deliberation,
  • plan,
  • meditation,
  • purpose,
  • ambition.
  •engrossment (noun)
  • absorption.
  •expectation (noun)
  • expectation,
  • presumption,
  • foreboding,
  • anxiety,
  • pessimism,
  • apprehension,
  • uncertainty,
  • worriment,
  • fear,
  • expectancy,
  • anticipation,
  • dread,
  • suspense,
  • apprehensiveness.
  •gazing at (noun)
  • looking at,
  • observation,
  • inspection,
  • survey,
  • scrutiny,
  • viewing,
  • examination.
  •hope (noun)
  • aspiration,
  • wish,
  • sureness,
  • desire,
  • eagerness,
  • hope,
  • confidence,
  • yearning,
  • faith,
  • optimism.
  •imagination (noun)
  • invention,
  • creation,
  • fantasy,
  • supposition,
  • vision,
  • conception,
  • Daydreams,
  • dream,
  • Dreams,
  • idea,
  • brainchild,
  • creativity.
  •introspection (noun)
  • introversions,
  • self-observation,
  • self-examination,
  • self-questioning,
  • heart-searching,
  • egoisms,
  • introversion.
  •judgment (noun)
  • de-termination,
  • re-solution,
  • de terminations,
  • de-terminations,
  • re search,
  • de termination,
  • assayings,
  • de cree,
  • in-quest,
  • re-solutions,
  • de-cree,
  • weigh ins,
  • re solutions,
  • re searches,
  • close studies,
  • de crees,
  • in quest,
  • weighins,
  • be lief,
  • in quests,
  • weigh-ins,
  • de-crees,
  • weighin,
  • in-quests,
  • be-lief.
  •look (noun)
  • look sees,
  • noticings,
  • looksee,
  • be holdings,
  • looksees,
  • be-holding,
  • onceover,
  • regardings,
  • look-sees,
  • keeping watches,
  • be holding,
  • beholdings,
  • once over,
  • be-holdings.
  •prospect (noun)
  • irons in fire,
  • in the cards.
  •question (noun)
  • exploration,
  • question,
  • query,
  • inquiry,
  • interpellation,
  • poll,
  • inquest,
  • quiz,
  • interrogation,
  • probe.
  •reflection (noun)
  • re flections,
  • re flection,
  • re-flections,
  • re-flection.
  •reverie (noun)
  • absentmindedness,
  • mind trip,
  • dreamings,
  • phantasy,
  • woolgathering,
  • castle-building,
  • dreaminess,
  • phantasies,
  • castles in the air,
  • castles in air.
  •soul-searching (noun)
  • self-analysis.
  •speculation (noun)
  • shot the dark,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • ex cogitation,
  • stab dark,
  • ex cogitations,
  • sur-mise,
  • sur mise,
  • ex-cogitation,
  • studyings,
  • sneaking suspicions,
  • stab in dark,
  • sur-mises,
  • ex-cogitations,
  • stab the dark,
  • sur mises,
  • guesstimates,
  • hypo thesis.
  •study (noun)
  • academic works,
  • schoolworks,
  • memorizings,
  • crammings.
  •thought (noun)
  • brain work,
  • intellection,
  • thought,
  • imagination,
  • calculation,
  • cerebration,
  • daydreaming,
  • thinking,
  • appraisal,
  • engrossment,
  • evaluation,
  • preoccupation,
  • Debating,
  • reasoning,
  • wistfulness,
  • brooding,
  • analysis,
  • concentration,
  • weighing,
  • envisioning.
  •view (noun)
  • dis-plays,
  • perlustrations,
  • dis plays,
  • dis-play,
  • dis play.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • officiate,
  • novitiate,
  • anoint,
  • prayer meeting,
  • celebrant,
  • thanksgiving,
  • sacrificial,
  • ceremony,
  • rite,
  • ordination,
  • purification,
  • brainwork,
  • devotional,
  • purify,
  • sanctify,
  • flagellation,
  • liturgical.
  •
  • ordain,
  • feast,
  • sacrifice,
  • invocation,
  • vigil,
  • preach,
  • prayer,
  • deify.
  •
  • ministry.
  •
  • service.
  •Other relevant words:
  • obsession,
  • passivism,
  • paralysis,
  • in order to,
  • offer,
  • mirror image,
  • inactivity,
  • vista,
  • be after,
  • communion,
  • petition,
  • vegetation,
  • Ave,
  • passive resistance,
  • nirvana,
  • certainty,
  • mentation,
  • foreseeing,
  • laissez faire,
  • nonresistance,
  • Beadroll,
  • deep in thought,
  • function,
  • advisement,
  • policy,
  • considerateness,
  • investigation,
  • assume,
  • providence,
  • preparation,
  • placidness,
  • serious,
  • mind,
  • procrastination,
  • stagnation,
  • pensive,
  • lessons,
  • pacifism,
  • move,
  • AID PRAYER,
  • grinding,
  • Meditating,
  • noninvolvement,
  • waiting game,
  • thanks,
  • Envisagement,
  • tranquillity,
  • assign,
  • Do-nothingism,
  • animus,
  • Beseechment,
  • reflective,
  • rosary,
  • exercise,
  • provision,
  • purview,
  • abstracted,
  • learning,
  • review,
  • promise,
  • inertia,
  • consider,
  • affect,
  • revolving,
  • prevision,
  • overview,
  • Impetration,
  • inaction,
  • Cogitating,
  • Bookwork,
  • sleep,
  • indolence,
  • reflecting,
  • preview,
  • peace,
  • meaning,
  • absorbed,
  • chaplet,
  • quietness,
  • have to,
  • meditative,
  • longsightedness,
  • vetting,
  • brood,
  • Headwork,
  • reading,
  • sad,
  • expression,
  • prayer wheel,
  • silence,
  • contemplative,
  • look forward to,
  • appeal,
  • serenity,
  • litany,
  • debate,
  • muse on,
  • intent,
  • look out for,
  • Obtestation,
  • broody,
  • idleness,
  • stasis,
  • hatching,
  • dormancy,
  • stagnancy,
  • promise oneself,
  • forehandedness,
  • concern,
  • involvement,
  • proposal,
  • lost in thought,
  • propose,
  • look at,
  • keep in view,
  • placidity,
  • thoughtful,
  • suit,
  • conjecture,
  • in order that,
  • breviary,
  • preoccupied,
  • passivity,
  • contemplate,
  • likelihood,
  • supplication,
  • probability,
  • Ataraxy,
  • neutrality,
  • immobility,
  • abstract thought,
  • readiness,
  • ataraxia,
  • inattention,
  • allot,
  • anticipate,
  • imminence,
  • beads,
  • ponder,
  • cram,
  • single-mindedness,
  • speculative,
  • Deliberating,
  • on account of,
  • work,
  • quietude,
  • at,
  • considered opinion,
  • speculate,
  • Considering,
  • Do-nothingness,
  • intercession,
  • quiescency,
  • entreaty,
  • repose,
  • mental activity,
  • weighting,
  • look for,
  • farsightedness,
  • collect,
  • destiny,
  • neutralism,
  • planning,
  • reliance,
  • prudence,
  • inclination,
  • outlook,
  • adopt,
  • hope for,
  • behold,
  • calculate,
  • prepublication,
  • engagement,
  • slumber,
  • think deeply,
  • sagacity,
  • foresightedness,
  • absorbed attention,
  • Imploration,
  • Obsecration,
  • rogation,
  • expect,
  • introspective,
  • do-nothing policy,
  • drill,
  • composure,
  • nonviolent resistance,
  • prediction,
  • devotions,
  • quiescence,
  • watching,
  • practises,
  • ruminate,
  • brown study,
  • guess,
  • for,
  • studying,
  • Overhauling,
  • reflect,
  • Foregleam,
  • eye,
  • platonic,
  • have in view,
  • quiet,
  • nonparticipation,
  • deliberative,
  • forecast,
  • satori,
  • pensively,
  • feign,
  • think,
  • Cramming,
  • Contemplating,
  • muse over,
  • wistful,
  • stillness,
  • Ruminating,
  • perusal,
  • calmness,
  • thoughts,
  • allocate,
  • Prospection,
  • take,
  • in contemplation of,
  • manifestation,
  • Boning,
  • longing,
  • monomania,
  • passiveness,
  • imperturbability,
  • reflectivity,
  • rest,
  • restudy,
  • swatting,
  • diction,
  • subject,
  • standpattism,
  • scheme,
  • rapt attention,
  • grace,
  • application,
  • project,
  • foresight,
  • proffer,
  • intend,
  • orison,
  • submersion,
  • watching and waiting,
  • sake,
  • peacefulness,
  • accept,
  • Conning,
  • cogitate,
  • perspective,
  • overhaul,
  • wondering,
  • inertness,
  • look out,
  • lookout,
  • will,
  • nonviolence,
  • notion,
  • grind,
  • the eye,
  • studiousness,
  • nominate,
  • discretion,
  • quietism,
  • meditate,
  • musingly,
  • counsel,
  • Bidding prayer,
  • restfulness,
  • mean,
  • horizon,
  • practice.

Paraphrases for Contemplation:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    meditation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    preparation, forecasting, expectation.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    anticipation, deliberation, prediction, prevision, forecast, projection.

Antonyms for Contemplation:

• n.

  • deep thought; planning
    disregard, ignorance, disdain, rejection, neglect, slight, avoidance.

Contemplation Sentence Examples:

• He looked about for a moment, and then sat down on the divan, folded his feet under him, and fell into a contemplation of the sphere.

• The words, the tone, both bore a touch of real pathos; nevertheless Lady Hayes smiled, as if, so far from being pained by the sad prospect, she found something amusing in the contemplation.

Hyponym for Contemplation:

• n.

  • act
    stare.