Synonyms of meditations

meditations

noun

plural of meditation

as in contemplations

long or deep thinking about spiritual matters

the busy executive devotes an hour a day to quiet meditation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contemplations
• deliberations
• studies
• introspections
• reveries
• retrospections
• trances
• muses
• ruminations
• musings
• reflections
• cogitations
• brown studies
• woolgatherings

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of meditations

And the urgency of Judar’s meditations on authoritarianism, impunity, social repression, and avenues for liberation in the United States in 2026 is so clear as to be self-evident. — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

Counseling and therapy practices are also adopting the tech, since the OPUS SoundBed is used to amplify modalities like IASIS MCN and EMDR by translating meditations and music into full-body vibration. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

The last chapters of Jones’s book are filled with meditations on mortality that are both life affirming and sweet. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026

The Calm app has guided meditations, breathing exercises, sleep stories, and music designed to reduce anxiety and quiet the nervous system. — Katie Riley, Southern Living, 1 July 2026

That feeling is only intensified by Xang’s under-his-breath threats and twisted meditations that come across more like free-car witchcraft. — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

In Kurkov’s hands, his efforts offer both serious meditations and page-turning diversion. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Although centered around the cartographer’s task of conducting the Ordnance Survey of 1865, there are flashbacks to the Great Hunger in the 1840s, as well as meditations on movement within and out of the country, taking readers to Italy, Canada, and then back to that unnamed Irish peninsula. — Nora Biette-Timmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

Science journalist Sabrina Imbler combines memoir and reportage in this insightful and far-reaching essay collection, using 10 ocean animals as a jumping-off point for personal meditations on health, community and survival. — Tessa Yang, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026