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Cogitation vs Musing - What's the difference?

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Cogitation is a related term of musing.


As nouns the difference between cogitation and musing

is that cogitation is (uncountable) the process of cogitating; thought, deliberation or meditation while musing is thought, meditation, contemplation.

As a verb musing is

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As an adjective musing is

absorbed in thought; contemplative.

cogitation

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The process of cogitating; thought, deliberation or meditation
  • (countable) A carefully considered thought

    • Quotations

    * 1848 Basil Montagu - The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author by Basil Montagu - Page 212 *: Aristotle saith well, "Words are the images of cogitations , and letters are the images of words"

    See also

    * cogitate

    musing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Absorbed in thought; contemplative

    • Synonyms

    * broody * pensive * reflective

    Derived terms

    * musingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • thought, meditation, contemplation
    • ''daydreaming or imaginative musings .
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