English-Portuguese translations for introspection

• introspecção
  Espero que as nomeações da semana passada ponham termo a estes anos de introspecção. I hope that the appointments last week can draw a line under these years of introspection.
  Mas não nos devemos perder num período de introspecção, necessariamente limitado no seu alcance. But we must not get lost in a period of narrow introspection.
  Esse o motivo pelo qual estamos a pedir à Comissão Europeia que abandone a sua conveniente posição de vã introspecção. This is why we are asking the European Commission to abandon its convenient position of idle introspection.

Definition of introspection

• A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states

Related words

• introspective
• introspectively
• introspective sort