What is the difference between omphaloscepsis and omphaloskepsis?
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Contemplation]] of or [[meditate, meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing.
(figuratively) ratiocination to the point of self-absorption
* 1948 , John Frederick Wolfenden, The Public Schools To-day: A Study in Boarding School Education , University of London Press, page
* 1952 , William Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong , H. M. Stationery Off., page
* 1975 , Donald Watt, Aldous Huxley, the Critical Heritage , ISBN 0710081146, page
* 1998 , Louis C. Burmeister, Elements of Thermal-Fluid System Design , Prentice Hall, ISBN 0136602185, pages
Omphaloscepsis is an alternative form of omphaloskepsis.
As nouns the difference between omphaloscepsis and omphaloskepsis
is that omphaloscepsis is (omphaloskepsis) while omphaloskepsis is contemplation]] of or [[meditate|meditation upon one's navel.omphaloskepsis
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Alternative forms
* omphaloscepsisNoun
(-)108,
- 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.
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- … like the Muslims who saw Mecca as the world's navel, the British saw London as the world's capital. Omphaloscepsis has always been one of the world's troubles.
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- 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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- This approach has been referred to as an omphaloskeptic method of design, so called after the term omphaloskepsis used to describe the technique of meditation through contemplation of the navel (from the Greek "omphalos" for navel and "skepsis" for examination).