introspection

English

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IPA^(key): /ɪntɹəˈspɛkʃən/
Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

introspection (countable and uncountable, plural introspections)

(psychology) 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
Synonyms: self-consciousness, reflection
(object-oriented programming) Clipping of type introspection.

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the act or process of self-examination

Catalan: introspecció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 內省 (zh), 内省 (zh) (nèixǐng)
Czech: introspekce f
Esperanto: introspekto
Finnish: itsetutkiskelu, introspektio
German: Innenschau (de) f, Introspektion (de) f, Selbstbeobachtung f, Selbstprüfung f, Selbstwahrnehmung f (psychology)
Greek: ενδοσκόπηση (el) f (endoskópisi)

Lithuanian: savistaba f
Russian: самоана́лиз (ru) m (samoanáliz), самонаблюде́ние (ru) n (samonabljudénije), интроспе́кция (ru) f (introspékcija)
Serbo-Croatian: introspèkcija (sh) f, samoópažānje (sh) n, samoposmatranje n
Spanish: introspección (es)
Swedish: introspektion (sv) c, själviakttagelse c
Turkish: iç gözlem, içe bakış (tr), introspeksiyon (psychology)

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Further reading

introspection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
introspection in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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introspection f (plural introspections)

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