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navel-gazer
noun[ C ]
(alsonavel gazer)uk /ˈneɪ.vəlˌɡeɪ.zər/ us /ˈneɪ.vəlˌɡeɪ.zɚ/
someone who spends too much time considering their own thoughts, feelings, or problems:
He is not a navel-gazer, and doesn't spend time soul-searching and asking why.
The overly sentimental and commercial style of writing is satisfying to almost no one beyond the navel gazers who write it.
Related word
navel-gazing
He is a pragmatist rather than a navel-gazer.
Despite the state that had taken her over since her husband's disappearance, she was not usually a navel-gazer.
No navel-gazer, he finds inspiration for stories in unusual settings around the world and throughout history.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Thinking and contemplating
a brown studyidiom
agonize
agonize over/about something
beard-stroking
bethink
harbour
heart-searching
hit on/upon something
I/we'll (have to) seeidiom
in the cold light of dayidiom
introspect
navel
reckon
reflection
reweigh
rumination
run through someone's mind/headidiom
scratch your headidiom
self-contemplation
weigh
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