Today's Word "introspection"
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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.
"One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection. I'm not thinking of things like war, famine, disease, or violent crime -- not that sort of trouble." -- Nick Hornby, 'A Long Way Down'
Introspection derives from the past participle of Latin introspicere, "to look inside," from intro-, "to the inside" + specere, "to look."
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