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omphaloskepsis
/ˌɒmfələˈskɛpsɪs/
noun 2
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2ADJ.
calamy
VERB + OMPHALOSKEPSIS
defended
Definitions
noun
1
The contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing.
2
Ratiocination to the point of self-absorption.
Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation.
1952, William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong, H. M. Stationery Off., page 22, … like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always been one of the world's troubles.
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noun — literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idi
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Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation.
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1952, William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong, H. M. Stationery Off., page 22, … like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always
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Calamy alone is not debunked; and Calamy has defended omphaloskepsis and has set himself the ideal of free personal contemplation and recollection.
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