Skip to content
Vinony

introspect

verb

  1. looking inward or deeply into
L332046 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkt/

verb

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

  1. To engage in introspection.
  2. To look into.

    “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. To examine by means of type introspection.

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