'Musing' definitions:
Definition of 'musing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]
noun
A calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness]
Definition of 'Musing'
From: GCIDE
- Muse \Muse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mused; p. pr. & vb. n. Musing.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See Morsel, and cf. Amuse, Muzzle, n.]
- 1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. "Thereon mused he." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- He mused upon some dangerous plot. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'musing'
From: GCIDE
- musing \musing\ adj. Thinking long and intensely.
- Syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'musing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence of mind,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed,
- absorption,
- abstracted,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- advisement,
- bemused,
- bemusement,
- brooding,
- brown study,
- castle-building,
- close study,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentration,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- consideration,
- contemplating,
- contemplation,
- contemplative,
- contemplativeness,
- counsel,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deep thought,
- deliberating,
- deliberation,
- deliberative,
- depth of thought,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- dreamfulness,
- dreaminess,
- dreaming,
- dreamlikeness,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- engrossment,
- excogitating,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- faraway,
- fit of abstraction,
- half-awake,
- ideative,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- introspective,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- lucubration,
- meditating,
- meditation,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- museful,
- musefulness,
- muted ecstasy,
- napping,
- nodding,
- noetic,
- oblivious,
- pensive,
- pensiveness,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupied,
- profound thought,
- rapt,
- reflecting,
- reflection,
- reflective,
- reflectiveness,
- reverie,
- revolving,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- rumination,
- ruminative,
- serious,
- sober,
- somewhere else,
- speculation,
- speculative,
- speculativeness,
- stargazing,
- study,
- taken up,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- Walter Mitty,
- weighing,
- wistful,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought