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Pensiveness

Definitions: Pensiveness

Pensiveness

Noun

1. Persistent morbid meditation on a problem.

2. Deep serious thoughtfulness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pensiveness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Pensiveness

Synonyms: brooding (n), contemplativeness (n), meditativeness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pensiveness

English words defined with "pensiveness": Languishment. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Pensiveness

"Pensiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pensiveness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pensiveness

Language Translations for "pensiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rënie në mendime (abstraction). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zamyšlenost. (various references)

   

German

  

Tiefsinn (dejection, depression, gloom, melancholy, profoundness, profundity). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατήφεια (dejection, dumps, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, moodiness, mopishness), σκέψη (advisement, consideration, contemplation, meditation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, speculation, thinking, thought), συλλογισμόσ (cogitation, ratiocination, reasoning, rumination, syllogism, thoughtfulness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

töprengés (cogitation, rumination, speculation), tépelődés, elgondolkodás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

malinconia (gloom, hump, melancholia, melancholiness, melancholy, miserable, sadness, somberness, sombreness, spleen). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

物思い (anxiety, meditation, reverie, thought). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ものおもい (anxiety, meditation, reverie, thought). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trommys (dejection, heaviness, heaviness of spirit), fastid (closeness, modesty, reserve, seriousness, taciturnity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensivenesspay

   

Romanian

  

caracter meditativ. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

задумчивость (muse, thoughtfulness, wistfulness). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cianalas (dullness, melancholy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kara kara düşünme, dalgınlık (absence, absence of mind, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacancy, vacuity, wandering, woolgathering). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vẻ trầm ngâm, vẻ suy nghĩ vẻ bu"n. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pensiveness

Derivations

Words beginning with "pensiveness": pensivenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "pensiveness": expensiveness, inexpensiveness. (additional references)

Words containing "pensiveness": expensivenesses, inexpensivenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pensiveness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penisiveness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pensiveness"

Words rhyming with "pensiveness" (pronounced 'Pen"sive*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pensiveness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-n-p-s-s-s-v"

-3 letters: evenness.

-4 letters: penises, pennies, pensees, pensive, pinenes, speises, spenses, venines, vespine.

-5 letters: envies, espies, nesses, nieves, peeves, peises, pennis, pensee, pinene, pisses, seines, seises, senses, sepses, sepsis, sevens, sieves, snipes, speise, speiss, spense, spines, venine, venins.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-n-p-s-s-s-v"
 

+2 letters: expansiveness, expensiveness, pensivenesses.

 

+3 letters: punitivenesses, responsiveness.

 

+4 letters: expansivenesses, expensivenesses, inexpensiveness, plaintivenesses.

 

+5 letters: apprehensiveness, inexpressiveness, irresponsiveness, preventivenesses, responsivenesses, unresponsiveness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pensiveness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 6E 73 69 76 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5071808575887180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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