pondering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of ponder

noun

1. An act of rumination or cogitation.

   “Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.”

   “Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.”