Synonyms for contemplation
ˌkɒn təmˈpleɪ ʃən, -tɛm-con·tem·pla·tion

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1. contemplationnoun

   The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

   Antonyms:
   pragmatism

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1. contemplationnoun

   a long and thoughtful observation

   Synonyms:
   musing, rumination, thoughtfulness, reflexion, reflection

2. contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulnessnoun

   a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

   Synonyms:
   mirror image, expression, reflexion, reflectivity, manifestation, considerateness, thoughtfulness, rumination, consideration, observation, musing, reflection

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1. contemplationnoun

   Synonyms:
   reflection, meditation, cogitation, lucubration, deliberation, study, thought, speculation, pondering

2. contemplationnoun

   Synonyms:
   view, prospect, prospective

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1. List of paraphrases for "contemplation":

   meditation

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1. Albert Einstein:

   There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

2. Albert Einstein:

   The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

3. Thomas Aquinas:

   Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

4. Midge Dector:

   Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

5. Émile Durkheim:

   Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.