HyperDic: navel-gazing

English > 1 sense of the word navel-gazing:
NOUNcognitionnavel-gazing, omphaloskepsisliterally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
English > navel-gazing: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningLiterally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption.
Synonymomphaloskepsis
Broaderself-absorptionpreoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else
Spanishombliguismo, omphaloskepsis
Catalanomphaloskepsis

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