Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deep in thought; contemplative.
- noun Contemplation; meditation.
- noun A product of contemplation; a thought.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Meditative; thoughtful; preoccupied.
- noun The act of pondering; meditation; thoughtfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thinking long and intensely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
muse . - adjective Absorbed in
thought ;contemplative - noun
thought ,meditation ,contemplation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deeply or seriously thoughtful
- noun a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
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Examples
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The simplemindness of this musing is truly impressive — a Republican state legislator from a semi-rural Virginia exurb of DC makes an offensive claim that birth defects are divine punishment after abortions and you imagine that is cause for defections from the GOP and into the arms of the Obama administration?!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010
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I know that I have been accused of foolishness in musing whether we are heading for a Third World War, but the news that Barack Obama's Vice President, the inept Joe Biden, is due to make a keynote foreign policy speech at an international conference in Munich fills me with a sense of dread.
Munich?! Not a sheep 2009
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One thing I noticed in my musing is that Chinese New Year and Lent do have a food tradition in common: the consumption of fish.
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Soon after the lords had quitted him, the buoyant elasticity of his figure, which before seemed ready to rise from the earth, so was his soul elevated by his sublime resolves, gave way to melancholy retrospections, and he threw himself into a chair with his hands clasped upon his knee and his eyes fixed in musing gaze upon the floor.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Indeed, what she did then at first was not to think, but to recall in musing all the scenes and as far as possible all the words of that evening; with a consciousness behind this all the while that there was hard thinking coming.
The Old Helmet 1864
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And I don't quote Phyllis Schlafly often, but I think she may have been on target when she said that his comments about women, homemakers and lawyers that he made when he was 25 were the musings -- she didn't use the word "musing" -- were wisecracks of a young bachelor who didn't have much world experience.
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"Lordy massy, how prosperous everything does seem here!" he said, in musing tones, over his inevitable mug of cider; "so different from what 't is t 'our house.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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‘Was it for this his gentle youth was passed in musing solitude and mystic studies?
Chapter 1 - Part IX 1822
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It's sad this kind of musing passes for financial advice in a prominent financial newspaper.
Dan Solin: A Novel Investing Strategy From the WSJ Dan Solin 2010
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It's sad this kind of musing passes for financial advice in a prominent financial newspaper.
Dan Solin: A Novel Investing Strategy From the WSJ Dan Solin 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word musing
"Ours is a privileged moment: never before has it been so easy to gain access to the errant musings, rapid-fire opinions, and random proclivity-ies of venture capitalists and others we enrich."
Source: How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo
January 22, 2018