musing
noun
[ ˈmjuːzɪŋ ]
• a period of reflection or thought.
• "his musings were interrupted by the sound of the telephone"
Similar:
meditation,
thinking,
contemplation,
deliberation,
pondering,
reflection,
rumination,
cogitation,
introspection,
daydreaming,
dreaming,
reverie,
brown study,
abstraction,
preoccupation,
brooding,
wool-gathering,
cerebration,
musing
adjective
• characterized by reflection or deep thought.
• "the sad musing gaze"
muse
verb
• be absorbed in thought.
• "he was musing on the problems he faced"
Similar:
ponder,
consider,
think over/about,
mull over,
reflect on,
contemplate,
deliberate,
turn over in one's mind,
chew over,
weigh up,
meditate on,
ruminate over/on,
brood on,
give some thought to,
cogitate on,
evaluate,
examine,
study,
review,
think,
debate with oneself,
be in a brown study,
daydream,
be in a reverie,
pore on,
cerebrate,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French muser ‘meditate, waste time’, perhaps from medieval Latin musum ‘muzzle’.
