Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation.
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Omphaloskepsis
//ˌɒmfələˈskɛpsɪs//
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Danish
1 entries- navlepilleri noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
Dutch
1 entries- navelstaren noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
French
1 entries- nombrilisme noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
German
1 entries- Nabelschau noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
Greek
1 entries- ομφαλοσκοπία noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- navlebeskuer noun (contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel)
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1952, William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong, H. M. Stationery Off., page 22, … like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always been one of the world's troubles.
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Calamy alone is not debunked; and Calamy has defended omphaloskepsis and has set himself the ideal of free personal contemplation and recollection.
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This approach has been referred to as an omphaloskeptic method of design, so called after the term omphaloskepsis used to describe the technique of meditation through contemplation of the navel (from the Greek "omphalos" for navel and "skepsis" for examination).
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