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Musing vs Ruminative - What's the difference?

musing | ruminative |

As adjectives the difference between musing and ruminative

is that musing is absorbed in thought; contemplative while ruminative is causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.

As a verb musing

is .

As a noun musing

is thought, meditation, contemplation.

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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    ruminative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , author=F. Scott Fitzgerald , title=The Beautiful and Damned , chapter=5 citation , passage=They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1864 , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=12 citation , passage=‘It happened,’ returned the man, with a ruminative air, as he drew his right hand across his chin, and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat, ‘it happened somewhere about here as I reckon. I don’t think it can have been a mile from here.’}}
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    • Synonyms

    * meditative