observation
noun
an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
self-observation
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a word derived from
observation.
Example Sentences
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He was testing how far the stage could rival the short story, his other main artistic outlet, as a medium of self-observation and subtle epiphany.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
“The moments where you are fully in it, all that goes — all that awareness, all that self-observation, all that stuff, that inner critic,” Considine said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
The narcissism of self-observation has been turned into observation of another human being, and that, in turn, has been directed outward to observation of the world.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018
“The effective methods still demand self-observation by women,” she says.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2018
This is not quite what is ordinarily called self-observation, but, at a pinch, one can sum it up thus.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
