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contemplative
Disposed to or characterized by contemplation.
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  1. Disposed to or characterized by contemplation.
  2. Of or inclined to contemplation; thoughtful; meditative
reflective
Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful.
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  1. Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful.
  2. Something which reflects, or redirects back to the source.
  3. (Computing, programming) Involving reflection.
subjective
Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
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  1. Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
  2. Relating to the real nature of something; essential.
  3. Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual:
inner-directed
Tending to follow one's own rules rather than those of society
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  1. Tending to follow one's own rules rather than those of society
  2. Guided by or concerned with goals or ideals determined by oneself rather than by others
Find another word for introspective. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for introspective, like: contemplative, reflective, subjective, inner-directed and thoughtful.

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  • No man can exhaust by introspective analysis the hidden elements in his personality.

  • Subsequent psycho-physical investigations have all been in the spirit of his work; and although he consistently advocated the introspective method in psychological investigation, he was among the first to appreciate the help that may be given to it by animal and social and infant psychology.

  • With the generation of moralists that followed, the consideration of abstract rational principles falls into the background, and its place is taken by introspective study of the human mind, observation of the actual play of its various impulses and sentiments.

  • Quiet and introspective water signs are often wooed by the zeal and passion of the fire signs, just as earth-heavy signs are wooed by the ebullient nature of air-people.

  • Within the domain of consciousness introspective analysis is unable to discover those chains of necessary sequences which it is the province of science to investigate in the physical world.

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