introspection
/ɪntrə(ʊ)ˈspɛkʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
The examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes: quiet introspection can be extremely valuable...
- Establish a comfort zone with the child before you ask for quiet observation or introspection.
- From the internal viewpoint of introspection, mental reality is composed of sensations and images.
- The problem is that men tend to heal in private, through introspection and quiet thinking.
Synonyms
brooding, self-analysis, soul-searching, heart-searching, introversion, self-observation, self-absorption;
contemplation, thoughtfulness, pensiveness, thought, thinking, musing, rumination, meditation, pondering, reflection, cogitation
informal navel-gazing
Rhymes
- participance
- participancy
- participant
- participant democracy
- participant observation
- participant observer
- participant observing
- participate
- participation
- participational
- participation mystique
- participative
- participatively
- participator
- participatory
- participatory democracy
- participial
- participial adjective
- participialize
- participialized
- participially
- participle
- particle
- particle accelerator
- particle beam