[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being contemplative; meditativeness.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Contemplativeness, addictedness to contemplation.
1825. Sir S. E. Brydges, Recoll. For. Trav., I. 242. A grave and rich contemplativeness.
1856. Masson, Ess., Wordsw., 375. Contemplativeness … does not so much imply the power of attaining or producing thought, as the power of brooding sentimentally over thought already attained.
a. 1853. Robertson, Lect., ii. 172. The contemplativeness of Hamlet, which lets the moment of action pass.
