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Today's Word "introspection"

The act of self-examination on

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introspection \in-truh-SPEK-shuhn\ (noun) - The act or process of self-examination; contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings; a looking inward.

"Religion absorbed Bailey, and following a period of intense introspection, he began a long quest to become a Congregationalist minister." -- Thomas G. Dyer, 'Secret Yankees'

 

Introspection derives from the past participle of Latin introspicere, "to look inside," from intro-, "to the inside" + specere, "to look."


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