Meaning of INTROSPECTIVE
Pronunciation: | | `intrusp'ektiv
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [adj] examining own sensory and perceptual experiences |
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| Synonyms: | | introverted, self-examining |
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| Antonyms: | | extrospective, extroverted | |
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Products Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Introspective Introspective more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. introspectif.]
1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or
exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of
physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. --J.
S. Mill.
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| Related Terms: | | absorbed, abstracted, buried in thought, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, excogitating, ideative, immersed in thought, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noetic, occupied, pensive, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, wistful, wrapped in thought |
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