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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

... is touched with a stately life that is a presage of immortality. It is evident, indeed, that Arnold wrote Balder Dead in his most fortunate hour, and that Merope is his one serious mistake in literature. For a genius thus peculiar and introspective drama—the presentation of character through action—is impossible; to a method thus reticent and severe drama—the expression of emotion in action—is improper. 'Not here, O Apollo!' It is written that none shall bind his brows with the twin laurels of epos and drama. Shakespeare did not, ...

— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... of the ship and love it, but there is a difference between being second in command and being It. It makes you introspective to realize that a hundred lives and a $700,000 ship are absolutely dependent upon you, without anybody but the Almighty to ask for advice if you get ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

... the effect of such a faith upon the sensitive nerves of the women of those days? Viewed in its larger aspects this was an objective, not a subjective religion. It could but make the sensitive soul super-sensitive, introspective, morbidly alive to uncanny and weird suggestions, and strangely afraid of the temptation of enjoying earthly pleasures. Its followers dared not allow themselves to become deeply attached to anything temporal; for such an emotion was the device of the devil, and God would surely remove the object ...

— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday

... deductive, axiomatic or intuitive, scholastic or introspective methods of inquiry prevailed in the intellectual world, systems of philosophy, psychology and theology were built up according to the peculiar subjective nature of their author, and held the field until some other strong mind projected its views of the subject and thus rivaled ...

— To Infidelity and Back • Henry F. Lutz

... library, awaiting his lordship and the announcement of dinner. There was a book before him; but his eyes were upon the window, the smooth lawns beyond, all drenched in summer sunshine, and his thoughts were introspective. He looked into his shuddering soul, and saw that he could not—that he would not—do the thing which he was come to do. He would await the coming of Everard, to tell him so. There would be a storm to face, he knew. But sooner that than carry ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

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