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rumination
[ roo-muh-ney-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of pondering or musing on something:
Understanding little of what was happening, I was semiconsciously storing away experiences, impressions, and ideas for later rumination.
- something written or spoken that expresses such pondering or musing:
Her blog posts contain notes of spirituality, ruminations on the meaning of experience, and glimpses of her multifaceted life.
- Psychology. excessive, repetitive thinking focused on the same, usually negative, idea or theme: characteristic of some obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.
- the act or process of chewing the cud, as cows, deer, and some other animals do:
Rumination helps cows efficiently turn grass, corn, and other feed into nutrient-dense milk.
Other Words From
- non·ru·mi·na·tion noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of rumination1
Example Sentences
How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy?
What is it about all the rumination, all the anxiety that makes it so hard to sort of stand up for yourself, to yourself?
The images feel like a yearbook of sorts, a rumination on the decade, and on three girls growing up.
In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.
Published in 2006, the novel is violent and spooky, a rumination on madness and creativity.
Lady Hartledon had dismissed her maid, and stood leaning against the arm of the sofa, indulging in bitter rumination.
At this a light came into his face, and after some seconds of rumination he despatched Nance upon an errand.
He sat looking surly and gloomy, buried in rumination, and by-and-by rose and left the room.
He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.
Then he wrenched off a huge chew of tobacco whose rumination might check his impulse toward tempestuous language.
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