Other forms: contemplations
Contemplation is long quiet thought about something. Deep in contemplation.
It has no purpose beyond itself, which is what separates it from working something out. The Latin behind it is marking out a space of sky to watch for omens.
1nouncontemplationLong quiet thought about something.
“An hour of contemplation by the river settled more than the meeting had.”
contemplation is a thinking.
Latin contemplatio comes from contemplari, to observe, from templum, a space marked out for augury.
Latin
contemplatio
Old French
contemplation
Middle English
contemplacioun
English, today
contemplation
From Middle English contemplacioun, from Old French contemplation, from Latin contemplatio. by surface analysis, contemplate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA