Introspection
[ɪntrə(ʊ)'spekʃ(ə)n] or ['ɪntrə'spɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct.
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Definition
(n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Looking within.
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Examples
- We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world--introspection. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had appealed for evidence of visual recall to distinguished scientists because he thought them more capable than others of accurately stating the results of their introspection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her habit of resolutely facing the facts, in her rare moments of introspection, did not now allow her to put any false gloss on the situation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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