Usually means: Introspective reflection, often excessively so.
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  1. navel-gazing: Merriam-Webster
  2. navel-gazing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. navel-gazing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. navel-gazing, navel-gazing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. navel-gazing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Navel-Gazing, navel-gazing: Wordnik
  7. navel-gazing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. navel-gazing, navel gazing: Wiktionary
  9. navel-gazing, navel gazing: Dictionary.com
  10. navel-gazing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. navel-gazing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. navel-gazing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. navel-gazing, navel gazing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Navel gazing)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of navel-gazing [Contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation.]

Similar:
omphalosceptic, side-gaze, up-gaze, omphalocoele, soul searching, soulsearching, marveling, philosophising, people watching, meditater, more...

Opposite:
introspection, extrospection, outward-looking

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Similar:
omphalosceptic, side-gaze, up-gaze, omphalocoele, soul searching, soulsearching, marveling, philosophising, people watching, meditater, more...

Opposite:
introspection, extrospection, outward-looking



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