Introspective \In`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. introspectif.]
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1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or
exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
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2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of
physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.
--J. S. Mill.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
introspective
adj : examining own sensory and perceptual experiences [syn: introverted]
[ant: extrospective]
WordNet (r) 2.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "introspective":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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