omphaloskepsis

14 letters · noun · scores 4,600 in SpellHuntr

noun

literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption

Omphaloskepsis in a sentence

Act we must; for we cannot sit rapt in educational omphaloscepsis while youngsters grow up and become the fathers and mothers of the next generation.

Calamy alone is not debunked; and Calamy has defended omphaloskepsis and has set himself the ideal of free personal contemplation and recollection.

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