English-Spanish translations for navel-gazing

• ensimismamiento
  Deseo protestar porque nuestro ensimismamiento nos impide prestar atención a la mayor amenaza a la que hoy se enfrenta la seguridad mundial - una guerra en la que podrían morir millones de personas. I wish to protest that we are navel-gazing and ignoring the greatest threat to the world's security today - a war in which millions of people could die.
• ombliguismo
  El ombliguismo institucional se produce con estas personas de igual forma que con cualquiera de las instituciones de Europa. This institutional navel-gazing occurs with these people just as much as it does with any of the institutions of Europe.
  Cuando todo está dicho y hecho, no son las instituciones -ombliguismo institucional- sino sus políticas lo que importa. When all is said and done, it is not the institutions - institutional navel-gazing - but their policies that are important.

Definition of navel-gazing

• Contemplation of one's navel as an aid#Noun|aid to meditation
• Excessive focus#Noun|focus on oneself; self-indulgent introspection.
• concentration on a single#Adjective|single issue#Noun|issue

Related words

• navel
• navelwort
• navel-string
• navel piercing
• navel string
• navel rupture
• navel pipe