ruminator
nounEtymology From ruminate + -or.
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One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
- An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow.2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:
- The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times:
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- They’re also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.2010 February 25, Jonah Lehrer, “Depression’s Upside”, in The New York Times Magazine:
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