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

“You don’t have to look far to find a literary writer who misses deadlines and goes on long bouts of self-contemplation,” he said.

From New York Times

At the Rubin Museum of Art, employees have started to ask similar questions of their own collection of Tibetan and Nepalese objects perfectly suited for the art of self-contemplation.

From New York Times

By placing visitors in a position of self-contemplation, she hoped to encourage them to question their beliefs in those systems.

From New York Times

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

From The Guardian

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