Words and phrases that have a meaning related to rumination: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
elegiac, melancholy, threnody, paean, contemplations, elegy, disquisition, meditations, roundelay, solipsism, musing, pensiveness, evocation, ephemerality, plaintiveness, philosophizing, melancholia, misanthropy, reminiscence, brooding, maudlin, inwardness, poetics, prose poem, purposelessness, melodrama, abjection, mordant, lonesomeness, introspection, catharses, reveries, memento mori, coda, shapelessness, finitude, solitariness, limns, ode, corporeality, talky, idealization, interiority, evanescence, ruefulness, distractedness, mournfulness, endlessness, sophoclean, riff, bildungsroman, profounder, cri de coeur, immanence, lyricism, shavian, reflections, obsessions, loneliness, impermanence, romanticism, wistfulness, psychodrama, opus, moroseness, arioso, eroticism, polemic, didacticism, dirge, fugue, atonality, transcendence, tragicomedy, ponderousness, rhapsodies, drifty, phantasmagoria, concision, poesy, koans, aimlessness, indeterminacy, cogitation, allegory, juvenilia, excursus, accelerando, moodiness, longueur, existentialism, chaconne, stimmung, apercus, playlet, juxtapositions, neurosis, grotesquerie, explication, fantasia, nocturnes, ennui, ruminations, pondering, musings, contemplation, reflection, daydreaming, grieving, retrospection, disquiet, disquietude, meditation, questionings, reverie, searchings, suffering
More specific:
omphaloskepsis, retrospect, self-contemplation, self-examination
More general:
consideration
Synonyms:
Also try:reflexion, thoughtfulness
— Adjectives for rumination: obsessive, depressive, obsessional, philosophical, excessive, mental, much, long, silent, chronic, pessimistic, more...
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