cogitation

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
2. (countable) A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.

Synonyms

thought

💭

thinking

🤔

meditation

idea

💡

study

speculation

reflection

contemplation

deliberation

reason

reasoning

ratiocination

consideration

syllogism

think

🤔

thoughtfulness

ponderation

conception

memory

reflection meditation

cerebration

considerance

cognition

debate

discussion

imagination

inch

intellect

mind

musing

opinion

pensiveness

pondering

rumination

Translations

cogitation

réflexion

Überlegung

σκέψη

cogitación

considerazione

συλλογισμός

Denkfähigkeit

meditazione

Schlussfolgerungen

Besinnen

Argumentarium

logisches Denken

Gedankengang

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌkɒd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cogitacioun

Cognate with Middle French: cogitatiun

Cognate with French: cogitation

In summary

Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.