Ponder vs Contemplating - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between ponder and contemplating

is that ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply while contemplating is .

(en verb)

To wonder, to think of deeply.

To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.

I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.

* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26

Ponder the path of thy feet.

(obsolete) To weigh.

* chew over * mull over * See also

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