Introspect
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To engage in introspection. intransitive
- 2 reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings wordnet
- 3 To look into. transitive
"Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts."
- 4 To examine by means of type introspection. transitive
"DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes."
Example
More examples"Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts."
Etymology
From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.
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