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- noun The state of being
introspective .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings
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Examples
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Stephen's narratives cover the gamut of deep introspectiveness to epic, world-changing events.
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Slow paced sci-fi film that has gained some admiration over the years due to its introspectiveness, markedly different from the kiddie-oriented fare of its time.
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Stephen's narratives cover the gamut of deep introspectiveness to epic, world-changing events.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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Slow paced sci-fi film that has gained some admiration over the years due to its introspectiveness, markedly different from the kiddie-oriented fare of its time.
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A little introspectiveness, and a lot less vitriol, may help you to recognize that a Manichean though process will do little on the road to nuance and greater understanding.
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Night, that strange personality, which within walls brings ominous introspectiveness and self-distrust, but under the open sky banishes such subjective anxieties as too trivial for thought, inspired Marty South with a less perturbed and brisker manner now.
The Woodlanders 2006
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For some reason -- Heimdall's displeasure with me, my own introspectiveness, my reputation for not suffering technological idiots, or the rumour that I didn't need gauntlets to throw thunderbolts -- few of the Guards struck up conversations with me within the Tower itself.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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There is in his blood the fantastical romance of the Elizabethans; the love of spiritual contemplation which marked the seventeenth-century mystic; the passionate adoration of Nature and the open air which came with the early nineteenth century; modern introspectiveness; and that habit of symbolism with which Rossetti and his school have made us familiar.
Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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And for me, this regenerator crowned with a saintly aureole remains a glorified marabout -- an intellectual dissolvent; the importer of that oriental introspectiveness which culminated in the idly-splendid yearnings of Plato, paved the way for the quaint Alexandrian
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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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
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Sherwood Anderson 1908
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