🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ruminação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ruminacao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rumination/ˌruːmɪˈneɪʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A ruminação excessiva pode piorar os quadros de ansiedade."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Deep or considered thought about something, or the action of chewing the cud.

    "His midnight ruminations were interrupted by a knock at the door."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 16th century: from Latin ruminatio(n-), from the verb ruminare, from rumen 'throat, gullet' (used in medieval Latin to mean 'stomach').

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