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introspect en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkt/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To engage in introspection.
  2. (transitive) To look into.
    • Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts. 2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought:
  3. (transitive) To examine by means of type introspection.
    • DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes. 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
introspected Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
introspected Tense=Past lexicographic
introspects Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
introspecting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

extrospect · introspectability · introspectable

Translations (4)

es introspeccionarse (intransitive) · fr examiner (transitive) · es introspeccionar (transitive) · fr s'examiner (intransitive)