Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Looking within; characterized or effected by introspection; studying or exhibiting one's own consciousness or internal state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
- adjective Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with
associational .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Examining one's own
perceptions andsensory experiences ;contemplative orthoughtful about oneself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
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Examples
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An overused word for any musician is that a work is "introspective" - these records seem far from that.
Expecting Rain 2008
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October 7, 2008 12: 52 pm oh, just bane of my existence, that’s all. i suspect anyone introspective is susceptible to this. but, it sure can be fun.
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Best known for introducing Everything But The Girl to the world, Cherry Red’s roster specialized in introspective pop drawing from bossa nova, ’60s jazz, folk, and, yes, punk.
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Best known for introducing Everything But The Girl to the world, Cherry Red’s roster specialized in introspective pop drawing from bossa nova, ’60s jazz, folk, and, yes, punk.
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One's view on whether or not the epistemic commitment that is being attributed to the common element theorist by Martin is excessively burdensome may depend, in part, on how one understands the notion of introspective indiscriminability in play in his argument.
Petty Injuries 2009
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By taking the time to cultivate a specific style for yourself -- whether intentionally demure or outlandish or somewhere in between -- you are conveying that you are strong enough to be introspective, which is no small task.
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The first is that most of the council ` s documents might be described as introspective: they are concerned with the Church ` s own problems, its theology, its renewal.
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But the supposed result of it and a few other recent personal catastrophes -- his latest release, 808s and Heartbreak -- plays exactly the way you'd figure an "introspective" album from Kanye West would.
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But the supposed result of it and a few other recent personal catastrophes -- his latest release, 808s and Heartbreak -- plays exactly the way you'd figure an "introspective" album from Kanye West would.
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But the supposed result of it and a few other recent personal catastrophes -- his latest release, 808s and Heartbreak -- plays exactly the way you'd figure an "introspective" album from Kanye West would.
Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008 Chez Pazienza 2010
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