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Ruminate vs Catastrophize - What's the difference?

ruminate | catastrophize |

As verbs the difference between ruminate and catastrophize

is that ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen while catastrophize is (obsolete) to end a comedy.

As an adjective ruminate

is (botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw.

ruminate

English

Verb

(ruminat)
  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
  • A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
  • To meditate or reflect.
  • I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
  • * Dryden
  • Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

    Synonyms

    * See also * Or

    Derived terms

    * ruminator

    See also

    * chew the cud

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
  • a ruminate endosperm

    catastrophize

    English

    Verb

    (catastrophiz)
  • (obsolete) To end a comedy
  • To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic
  • Quotations

    *1623 Henry Cockeram, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - The English Dictionarie of 1623 *:‘To end a Comedy or the like’ (Quoted in OED) *1947 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics - Human Relations *:Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974) *2001 David H. Barlow - Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders *:Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 + 2004 (online)