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introspection: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. introspection [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Saturday February 1, 2003
introspection in-truh-SPEK-shuhn, noun:
The act or process of self-examination; contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings; a looking inward.
Bill could be harshly self-critical, while Mac -- though not oblivious of his mistakes -- had no time for introspection.
--Kai Bird, The Color of Truth
Romanes acknowledged that to interpret an animal's thought processes this way required a heavy dose of inference from our own mental patterns, which we access through introspection.
--Stephen Budiansky, If a Lion Could Talk
Religion absorbed Bailey, and following a period of intense introspection, he began a long quest to become a Congregationalist minister.
--Thomas G. Dyer, Secret Yankees
Introspection derives from the past participle of Latin introspicere, "to look inside," from intro-, "to the inside" + specere, "to look."
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Today in History
February 1, 1865
President Abraham Lincoln approved the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery. On February 1, 1960, four young African-American students sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their courageous protest galvanized the civil rights movement and led to hundreds of similar sit-ins at segregated facilities across the South.
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