Omphalopsychic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Omphalopsychic is an adjective meaning (uncommon) Related to or characterised by navel-gazing (omphaloskepsis).
Meaning
(uncommon) Related to or characterised by navel-gazing (omphaloskepsis).
More Meanings
- (rare) Someone who engages in omphaloskepsis, a navel-gazer.
Example Sentences
Watts seems to say that man must turn in on himself in an involuntary act of introversion, when mind would contemplate self in a universe of his own creating (an omphalopsychic).
We were, as has been stated, travelling Omphalopsychics. Yes, yes… we’re coming to that. An Omphalopsychic is one who unravels the mysteries of the universe by contemplating his navel.
In many convents of the Greek Church it has been practised since the eleventh century, as it is still by the Omphalopsychics, with whom hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily gazing at the umbilicus.
This also seems to suggest that Alcibiades was primarily in love with Socrates’ personality, his harmonious nature, which nevertheless fulfilled itself in a negative self-relation to the idea and an omphalopsychic staring at oneself.
Word Forms
- omphalopsychics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include omphaloscopy, hypochondriast, schizophrene, omphalophobia, psychopathic, prosopagnosic.
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