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navel-gaze

navel-gaze verb: to engage in self-indulgent introspection.

Verb

navel-gaze (third-person singular simple present navel-gazes, present participle navel-gazing, simple past and past participle navel-gazed)

  1. (derogatory) To engage in self-indulgent introspection.

Forms of navel-gaze

third-person singular presentnavel-gazes
present participlenavel-gazing
past participlenavel-gazed
pastnavel-gazed

Origin of navel-gaze

Back-formation from navel-gazing.

Words formed from navel-gaze

Questions about navel-gaze

What does navel-gaze mean?
Navel-gaze means to engage in self-indulgent introspection.
What part of speech is navel-gaze?
Navel-gaze is a verb.
What is the past tense of navel-gaze?
The past tense of navel-gaze is navel-gazed.

Words near navel-gaze in the dictionary

  1. navel points
  2. navel ring
  3. navel rings
  4. navel string
  5. navel strings
  6. navel-gaze
  7. navel-gazed
  8. navel-gazer
  9. navel-gazers
  10. navel-gazes
  11. navel-gazey

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