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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pensiveness has 2 senses

• pensiveness(n = noun.feeling) brooding - persistent morbid meditation on a problem; Array
is a kind of melancholy
Derived form adjective pensive₁

• pensiveness(n = noun.attribute) contemplativeness, meditativeness - deep serious thoughtfulness; Array
is a kind of thoughtfulness
Derived form adjective pensive₂

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THESAURUS

pensiveness

absorption, abstraction, brown study, castle-building, close study, concentration, contemplativeness, daydreaming, deep thought, dreamery, dreamfulness, dreaminess, dreaming, dreamlikeness, engrossment, fantasying, gentle melancholy, melancholia, melancholiness, melancholy, musefulness, musing, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, profound thought, reflectiveness, reverie, romantic melancholy, speculativeness, study, thoughtfulness, tristfulness, wistfulness

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