| 单词 | navel-gazing |
| 释义 | navel-gazing[ ney-vuhl-gey-zing ] / ˈneɪ vəlˌgeɪ zɪŋ / noun Slang.excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue. Origin of navel-gazingFirst recorded in 1955–60; navel + gaz(e) + -ing1; perhaps from Hours With the Mystics (1856) by Robert Alfred Vaughan, English Congregationalist minister and author (1823–57), “...if a man shut himself up… turning his thoughts inward, gazing towards his navel..., he would at length behold a divine glory….” Words nearby navel-gazingnavarin, Navarino, Navarre, nave, navel, navel-gazing, navel ill, navel orange, navelwort, navette, navew Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for navel-gazing
British Dictionary definitions for navel-gazingnavel-gazing nouninformal self-absorbed behaviour Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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