lucubration

Definition of Lucubration in English :

1. lucubration

a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation

2. lucubration

laborious cogitation

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lucubration

noun

1.

laborious study, esp at night

2. (often plural)

a solemn literary work

noun

1.

the act of lucubrating; laborious work, study, or writing, esp. that done late at night

2.

something produced by such study, etc.; esp., a learned or carefully elaborated work

3. [often pl.]

any literary composition

, humorous usage suggesting pedantry

n.

1. Laborious study or thought.

2. often lucubrations Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially when viewed as pedantic.