meditationnoun
uk/ˌmed.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌmed.əˈteɪ.ʃən/the act of giving your attention to only one thing, either as a religious activity or as a way of becoming calm and relaxed:
prayer and meditation
She practises meditation.
[ C or U ] serious thought or study, or the product of this activity:
Let us spend a few moments in quiet meditation.
I left him deep in meditation.
The book is a meditation on the morality of art.
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Meditation, religious chanting & spiritual states
- chakra
- flotation
- incantation
- mantra
- meditate
- mindful
- mindfulness
- nirvana
- preach
- Transcendental Meditation
- yoga
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Thinking and contemplating
meditative
adjective uk/ˈmed.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us/ˈmed.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/formal