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introspected

introspected is the simple past and past participle of introspect.

Meaning of introspect

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.
    • 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.2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought
  3. (transitive) 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.2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly

Questions about introspected

What is introspected the simple past and past participle of?
Introspected is the simple past and past participle of introspect.

Words near introspected in the dictionary

  1. introscope
  2. introscopes
  3. introspect
  4. introspectability
  5. introspectable
  6. introspected
  7. introspectibility
  8. introspectible
  9. introspecting
  10. introspection
  11. introspection illusion

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