Usually means: Deep, reflective, often melancholic thinking.
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  1. pensiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. pensiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pensiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pensiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. pensiveness: Wordnik
  6. pensiveness: Wiktionary
  7. Pensiveness, pensiveness: Dictionary.com
  8. Pensiveness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pensiveness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. pensiveness: Rhymezone
  11. Pensiveness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pensiveness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. pensiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pensiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pensiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pensiveness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic.

Similar:
meditativeness, contemplativeness, brooding, languishment, heavy-heartedness, sentimentality, mood, philosophy, mellowedness, sensibility, more...

Opposite:
lightheartedness, cheerfulness, gaiety

Types:
contemplative, reflective, melancholic, pensive, introspective, thoughtful, meditative, philosophical, more...

Adjectives:
certain, gentle, deep, sweet, silent, dull, natural, soft, sad, profound, quiet

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Similar:
meditativeness, contemplativeness, brooding, languishment, heavy-heartedness, sentimentality, mood, philosophy, mellowedness, sensibility, more...

Opposite:
lightheartedness, cheerfulness, gaiety

Types:
contemplative, reflective, melancholic, pensive, introspective, thoughtful, meditative, philosophical, more...

Adjectives:
certain, gentle, deep, sweet, silent, dull, natural, soft, sad, profound, quiet



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