introspect

Definition

To engage in introspection.

Etymology

From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.

Example Sentences

• "Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts."
• "DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes."