Usually means: Self-examination of one's thoughts, feelings.
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  1. introspection: Merriam-Webster
  2. introspection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. introspection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. introspection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. introspection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Introspection, introspection: Wordnik
  7. introspection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. introspection: Wiktionary
  9. introspection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. introspection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. introspection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. introspection: Dictionary.com
  13. introspection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Introspection (Greg Howe album), Introspection (Thijs van Leer album), Introspection (computer science), Introspection (disambiguation), Introspection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Introspection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. introspection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. introspection: Rhymezone
  18. Introspection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. introspection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. introspection: FreeDictionary.org
  21. introspection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. introspection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. introspection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Introspection: Eastern Philosophy

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  1. introspection: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. introspection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. introspection: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Introspection: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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noun:  (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.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) Clipping of type introspection. [(object-oriented programming) The ability of a program to examine at run time the type or properties of an object.]

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