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/ˌɪntrəspˈɛktɪv/ /ˌɪntroʊspˈɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Introspective adj.

Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; contrasted with associational.

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Etymology of 'Introspective'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Introspective" Quotes from Famous Books

... it is as though some shadow had fallen upon the little camp. Nothing tangible—nothing that changed the general habits or surroundings—but a vague regret and introspective sadness upon the faces of two young men, usually full of careless content. Cecil Stanley, the more refined, a gentleman by birth and education, lounged low in his chair, with his hands behind his head and his feet on the table, and ever and anon ...

— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page

... our girls so that they may have just judgments and yet not make them so introspective that the bloom shall be brushed off the beauty of every action? Perhaps Emerson's suggestion, that every young person should be encouraged to do what he is afraid to do, would meet ...

— Girls and Women • Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

... the preceding view be too introspective for Homer, who is usually declared to be the unconscious poet, quite unaware of his purpose or process. No one can carefully read the Third Book without feeling its religious purport; an atmosphere it has ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

... a different answer—one which might throw some light upon the situation—but the girl was again quiet and introspective, without affording the slightest clew to her thoughts. How did it happen that he had proved so entirely satisfactory? Perhaps, then, after all, the original Henley was not so important a personage as he had imagined. But Paul scarcely hoped that his identity ...

— The Ghost of Guir House • Charles Willing Beale

... him to come and lunch with me. He thanked me, but could not, of course, being confined to a five-mile radius. Really anxious to see him, I motorbiked down to their house. I found a very changed youth; moody and introspective, thoroughly forced in upon himself, and growing bitter. He had been destined for his father's business, and, marooned as he was by his nationality, had nothing to do but raise vegetables in their garden and read poetry ...

— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy

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