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introspecting

introspecting is the present participle and gerund 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 introspecting

What is introspecting the present participle and gerund of?
Introspecting is the present participle and gerund of introspect.

Words near introspecting in the dictionary

  1. introspectability
  2. introspectable
  3. introspected
  4. introspectibility
  5. introspectible
  6. introspecting
  7. introspection
  8. introspection illusion
  9. introspection illusions
  10. introspectional
  11. introspectionism

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