ruminating, pondering, pontificating, discoursing, fretting, opining, obsessing, debating, blathering, rhapsodizing, prattle, contemplate, expounding, imagining, speculating, discussing, wondering, lamenting, thinking, reminiscing, daydreaming, cogitating, talking, bemoaning, agonize, carping, ramble, bruited, muttering, extemporizing, mull, bewailing, hinting, natter, chortling, remarking, grousing, explicating, disobliging, kvetching, rhapsodise, quibbling, waffling, fantasize, grumble, lecturing, cri de coeur, extolling, theorizing, ranting, yammering, philosophise, gabbing, revisiting, hifalutin, philosophized, worrying, belabors, stewing, riffing, dissecting, griping, deconstructing, harking, bellyaching, bitching, quizzing, versifying, woolgathering, marveling, vaunting, allude, bons mots, bon mot, fulminating, postulating, crowing, yakking, elaborating, rephrases, eliding, quips, bantered, harping, elizabethan age, bleating, billet doux, bloviate, equivocating, moping, jesting, fuddle, soliloquizing, ford madox ford, dreaming, declaim, kerfuffles, despairs, rabbiting, posited, regretting, punning, musings, reverie, revery, reveries, rumination, meditations, ruminations, brooding, contemplation, cogitation, cogitations, contemplations, retrospection, melancholy, meditation, questionings, retrospect, searchings, converse, dreamlike, solemn, surreal, uneasy, unnaturally, agonised, agonized, agonizing, anxious, apprehensive, awful, breathless, calmer, carefree, confiding, contemplative, despairing, disenchanted, drowsy

introspection, omphaloskepsis, self-contemplation, self-examination

anomic, meditation, speculation

consideration

broody, meditative, pensive, reflection, reflective, reflexion, ruminative, thoughtful, thoughtfulness