COGITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cogitation mean? 

• COGITATION (noun)
  The noun COGITATION has 2 senses:

1. a carefully considered thought about something

2. attentive consideration and meditation

  Familiarity information: COGITATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A carefully considered thought about something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook

Hypernyms ("cogitation" is a kind of...):

idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

Derivation:

cogitate (consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attentive consideration and meditation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cogitation; study

Context example:

after much cogitation he rejected the offer

Hypernyms ("cogitation" is a kind of...):

contemplation; musing; reflection; reflexion; rumination; thoughtfulness (a calm, lengthy, intent consideration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cogitation"):

lucubration (laborious cogitation)

Derivation:

cogitate (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

cogitate (consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind)

 Context examples 

She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)