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Definition of Introspective

1. Adjective. Given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences.

Definition of Introspective

1. a. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

Definition of Introspective

1. Adjective. Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Introspective

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Introspective

1. 1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious. 2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; contrasted with associational. Origin: Cf. F. Introspectif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Introspective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"introspective Psychology 203 1. Personality 204 2. Self and Selfconsciousness 204 3. Unity and Variations of Personality 205 4. Simple Feelings 206 5. ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"introspective psychology and its limited support to social science. The tendency to confine attention to an objective study of human institutions has been ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Rome psychologists may be called introspective in a special sense, because they make more exclusive use of the method than others. ..."

4. Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (1914)
"... introspective TYPE IT is now determined of what main elements the first religious confessions were composed, how partly the general drift of thought, ..."

5. Programming In Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (2003)
"introspective functions allow us to inspect several aspects of the running ... 23.1 introspective Facilities The main introspective function in the debug ..."

6. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"... introspective. What mind I have is intuitional. The processes of calculation are altogether foreign to me, and old school-mates will testify without ..."

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