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US
/ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkʃən, ˌɪntɹoʊˈspɛkʃən/
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[ UK /ˌɪntɹəspˈɛkʃən/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪntɹəspˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct
How To Use introspection In A Sentence
- His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
- This bout of introspection has been brought on by my most recent ethical hiccup. Times, Sunday Times
- Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
- He's free to talk about himself and his vision and his band as if it's the most important thing in the world, without an ounce of real introspection.
- But the Turkish border with Greece introspection Frontier Province Edirne is that this wall may be no effect.
- Introspection, and retrospection were good for the cloister; but the uplook, the outlook and the onlook are alone worthy the modern Christian. Work Done for Humanity
- His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
- Far from emphasizing the distinctiveness of introspection, the Inner Sense model instead seeks to minimize the anomalousness and associated mystery of self-knowledge by construing introspection as fundamentally similar to perception. Self-Knowledge
- The life of teachers is on ‘fast-track’ and hence, to prevent it from turning mechanical, there is a need for introspection and retrospection.
- To open oneself up to that introspection is almost the first step to a true religiosity, where you can be honest with yourself and humble in the way I think you have to be in order to be truly religious. A Conversation with Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson