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Definition of Introspectiveness

1. Noun. Thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings.

Definition of Introspectiveness

1. Noun. The state of being introspective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Introspectiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foundations of Psychology by Jared Sparks Moore (1921)
"Omitting these leaves us with three secondary characteristics of the psychical which will occupy our attention in the ensuing paragraphs— Introspectiveness, ..."

2. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"Introspectiveness. SELF-VEXING. ... and has, at least, these three moments : introspectiveness, or a disposition to introspection; ..."

3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"... and it is only in moments of voluntary or involuntary introspectiveness that we become aware that there are any ' normal working images' at all. ..."

4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"Moreover sixteenth-century autobiography is rare enough 0 be precious. Anthony Hungerford's introspectiveness was not ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"We notice this especially in the case of the heroine Mildred, a very young girl, whose self-condemning grief has something of the introspectiveness wrongly ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"A patient with his psychical self so deeply pinned down to a sense of his own powerlessness, thus giving way to the morbid introspectiveness markedly ..."

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