cavilación
Spanish, noun/kabilaˈθjon/
cavilación is spelled C-A-V-I-L-A-C-I-Ó-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written Spanish, the 289,016th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cavilación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “worrying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de cavilar o pensar de un modo profundo e intenso”.
What does cavilación mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineworrying
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de cavilar o pensar de un modo profundo e intenso. 2. Temor, aprensión o juicio con poco fundamento.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cavilación
- cavilaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cavilación?
- /kabilaˈθjon/
- [ka.β̞i.laˈθjõn]
- /kabilaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cavilación in Spanish?
cavilación appears about once in every 69 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).