introspect

English

Etymology

From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- +‎ -spect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

introspect (third-person singular simple present introspects, present participle introspecting, simple past and past participle introspected)

1. (intransitive) To engage in introspection.
2. (transitive) To look into.
   • 2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought:

     Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts.

3. (transitive, programming) To examine by means of type introspection.
   • 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:

     DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.

Anagrams

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