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introspection
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  • He had changed since Johann's departure, often seeming too serious and introspective for his age.†  (source)
    introspective = thoughtful about one's own thoughts and feelings
  • Introspection requires you to think and analyze.†  (source)
    Introspection = contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings
  • For Sylvie, the church had always been an innocuous entity ....a place of fellowship and introspection ....sometimes just a place to sing out loud without people staring at her.†  (source)
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  • I did not read to anyone this evening; I could not, for poetic introspection would bring me to tears.†  (source)
    introspection = contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings
  • I chose the sloth because its demeanour—calm, quiet and introspective—did something to soothe my shattered self.†  (source)
    introspective = thoughtful about one's own thoughts and feelings
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • Furthermore, in this case we have a much more specific explanation for why introspections mess up our reactions.†  (source)
  • She watched it introspectively.†  (source)
  • Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner both praised him as a writer who brought a new tremor of feeling, a new sense of introspectiveness to the American short story.†  (source)
    introspectiveness = the quality of tending to contemplate one's own thoughts and feelings
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • This contradiction is lost on him, though; as a dog, introspection is not one of his strong points.†  (source)
    introspection = contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings
  • HARRY steps away, introspective.†  (source)
    introspective = thoughtful about one's own thoughts and feelings
  • Once the fighting started, Van Riper didn't want introspection.†  (source)
    introspection = contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings
  • He took my face between his hands, still introspective.†  (source)
    introspective = thoughtful about one's own thoughts and feelings
  • She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection.†  (source)
    introspection = contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings
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