Meaning

(uncommon) Related to or characterised by navel-gazing (omphaloskepsis)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncommon) Related to or characterised by navel-gazing (omphaloskepsis).
2. (rare) Someone who engages in omphaloskepsis, a navel-gazer.

Example Sentences

The hypnotic method, he added, was used by the sculptors of antiquity to make their models hold still, by the “omphalopsychic” monks of Mount Athos staring at their navel, by Indian fakirs converging their eyes on the tip of their nose, […]

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.

Reflexivity has become a decidedly fashionable subject in social anthropoogy since the mid-1980s, though it is still quite common for reflexivity to be thought of as either involving any autobiographical comments whatsoever or as omphalopsychic irrelevance (or both).

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.

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.

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