PHILOSOPHIZE


Meaning of PHILOSOPHIZE in English

(~s, philosophizing, ~d)

Note: in BRIT, also use 'philosophise'

If you say that someone is philosophizing, you mean that they are talking or thinking about important subjects, sometimes instead of doing something practical.

He ~d, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure.

...a tendency to ~ about racial harmony.

VERB: V, V about/on n, also V with quote

philosophizing

The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.

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