Your navel-gazing prevents you from seeing what's really important.
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Navel-gazing
//ˈneɪvəlˌɡeɪzɪŋ//
Synonyms for "navel-gazing" (3 found)
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10 translations across 9 languages.
Danish
1 entries- navlepilleri noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Dutch
1 entries- navelstaren noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Finnish
1 entries- omaan napaan tuijottaminen noun (excessive focus on oneself)
French
1 entries- nombrilisme noun (excessive focus on oneself)
German
1 entries- Nabelschau noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Greek
1 entries- ομφαλοσκόπηση noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Hungarian
1 entries- köldöknézés noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Spanish
2 entries- ensimismamiento noun (excessive focus on oneself)
- ombliguismo noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Swedish
1 entries- navelskådning noun (excessive focus on oneself)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Forget incense and the lotus position, forget notions of "getting rid of thoughts" or "navel gazing," meditation is, more broadly and more helpfully for most people, getting to know our minds and hearts.
Source: wiktionary
To whom, except to the author, could these narcissistic navel-gazings be of interest?
Source: wiktionary
I believe that the Opposition, devoid of any argument of any weight in the debate, determined to have Parliament engage in a trivial navel-gazing exercise regarding who said what to whom, rather than to focus on the issue of whether or not members accept the sworn evidence of an honourable member of the House.
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