Other forms: introspecting
To introspect is to examine your own thoughts and feelings. Sit and introspect, introspect honestly, learn to introspect.
The verb is rarer than the noun introspection, which is what psychology called its first method — asking trained subjects to report what was in their minds. It was largely abandoned because nobody could check the reports against anything.
1verbintrospectTo examine your own thoughts and feelings.
“After the breakup, she took some time alone to introspect about what she really wanted.”
introspect is a looking inward.
Latin introspicere means to look within — intro, inward, plus specere, to look.
Latin
intrōspectus
English, today
introspect
From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. by surface analysis, intro- + -spect.
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