introspection

English

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introspection (countable and uncountable, plural introspections)

(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states
Synonyms: self-consciousness, reflection
Antonym: extraspection
(object-oriented programming) Clipping of type introspection.

the act or process of self-examination

Azerbaijani: daxili müşahidə
Bulgarian: самонаблюдение n (samonabljudenie)
Catalan: introspecció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 內省／内省 (zh) (nèixǐng), 內觀／内观 (zh) (nèiguān)
Czech: introspekce f
Esperanto: introspekto
Finnish: itsetutkiskelu, introspektio (fi)
German: Innenschau (de) f, Introspektion (de) f, Selbstbeobachtung f, Selbstprüfung f, Selbstwahrnehmung f (psychology)
Greek: ενδοσκόπηση (el) f (endoskópisi)
Indonesian: wawas diri (id), introspeksi (id), refleksi diri
Japanese: 内観 (ないかん, naikan)
Kannada: ಅಂತರವಲೋಕನ (antaravalōkana)
Kazakh: өзін-өзі бақылау (özın-özı baqylau), өзін-өзі байқау (özın-özı baiqau)
Lithuanian: savistaba f
Polish: autoanaliza (pl) f, samoanaliza f, introspekcja (pl) f
Portuguese: introspecção (pt) f (Brazil), introspeção f (Portugal)
Russian: самоана́лиз (ru) m (samoanáliz), самонаблюде́ние (ru) n (samonabljudénije), интроспе́кция (ru) f (introspékcija)
Serbo-Croatian: introspèkcija (sh) f, samoópažānje (sh) n, samoposmatranje n
Spanish: introspección (es)
Swedish: introspektion (sv) c, själviakttagelse c
Turkish: iç gözlem, içe bakış (tr), introspeksiyon (psychology)
Ukrainian: інтроспе́кція f (introspékcija)

introspection f (plural introspections)