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navel-gazing
[ ney-vuhl-gey-zing ]
- excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
navel-gazing
- informal.self-absorbed behaviour
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Word History and Origins
Origin of navel-gazing1
First recorded in 1955–60; navel ( def ) + gaz(e) ( def ) + -ing 1( def ); perhaps from Hours With the Mystics (1856) by Robert Alfred Vaughan, English Congregationalist minister and author (1823–57), “...if a man shut himself up… turning his thoughts inward, gazing towards his navel..., he would at length behold a divine glory….”
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Example Sentences
Genuinely funny and intelligent and navel-gazing and strange, these parts might eventually add up to something truly big.
From The Daily Beast
But it's also kind of fun to make fun of the navel-gazing-ness of some of it.
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