What does "musings" mean?

plural of musing (thoughts; ideas)

What is a synonym for "musings"?

Common synonyms include: contemplation, meditative, pensive, reflective, absence of mind, absent.

Musings

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plural of musing (thoughts; ideas) form-of, plural

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contemplation meditative pensive reflective absence of mind absent

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"For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."

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