Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being introspective.
WordNet 3.0
- n. thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings
Etymologies
- introspective + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Slow paced sci-fi film that has gained some admiration over the years due to its introspectiveness, markedly different from the kiddie-oriented fare of its time.”
“Stephen's narratives cover the gamut of deep introspectiveness to epic, world-changing events.”
“A little introspectiveness, and a lot less vitriol, may help you to recognize that a Manichean though process will do little on the road to nuance and greater understanding.”
“Night, that strange personality, which within walls brings ominous introspectiveness and self-distrust, but under the open sky banishes such subjective anxieties as too trivial for thought, inspired Marty South with a less perturbed and brisker manner now.”
“For some reason -- Heimdall's displeasure with me, my own introspectiveness, my reputation for not suffering technological idiots, or the rumour that I didn't need gauntlets to throw thunderbolts -- few of the Guards struck up conversations with me within the Tower itself.”
“There is in his blood the fantastical romance of the Elizabethans; the love of spiritual contemplation which marked the seventeenth-century mystic; the passionate adoration of Nature and the open air which came with the early nineteenth century; modern introspectiveness; and that habit of symbolism with which Rossetti and his school have made us familiar.”
“And for me, this regenerator crowned with a saintly aureole remains a glorified marabout -- an intellectual dissolvent; the importer of that oriental introspectiveness which culminated in the idly-splendid yearnings of Plato, paved the way for the quaint Alexandrian”
“Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner both praised him as a writer who brought a new tremor of feeling, a new sense of introspectiveness to the”
“By birth and principle a man of action, he has, even more than most of Browning's men of action, the curious introspectiveness of the philosophic onlooker.”
“Morbid introspectiveness and the spirit of revolt inevitably colour what is best in nineteenth-century Russia.”
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List 13
Derivatives from Chapter 13 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
desultory, introspectiveness, prefatory, discursive, during, conservative, tortuous, compulsive, discernible, assiduous, sensuous, cursory and 8 more...
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