self-contemplation

American  

[self-kon-tuhm-pley-shuhn, self-] / ˈsɛlfˌkɒn təmˈpleɪ ʃən, ˌsɛlf- /

noun

1. the act or process of thinking about oneself or one's values, beliefs, behavior, etc.

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Example Sentences

For Roth, Portnoy set the template for all his work, the exquisite torture of literary self-contemplation.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2018

There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it’s a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

Author Mark Pendergrast said, “As our first technology for self-contemplation, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal.”

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2015

Who has defeated America such that any self-contemplation of the kind I suggest is warranted?

From Salon • May 26, 2013

Here is a man in possession of two distinct selves,—the one emotional, active; the other eternally occupied in self-contemplation, judgment, and criticism.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk