What is the difference between omphaloskeptic and omphaloskepsis?
omphaloskeptic | omphaloskepsis | Derived terms |
One who contemplates]] or [[meditate, meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
* 1956 , Francis Wyndham, "A Beginning and Other Stories",
* 1970 , Aldous Huxley, Letters of Aldous Huxley , Harper & Row, page
* 1980 , John B. Bremner, Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words , Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231044933, pages
* 1998 , Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir , Macmillan, ISBN 0312180764, pages
Likely to, prone to, or engaged in contemplating]] or [[meditate, meditating upon one's navel.
* 1998 , Louis C. Burmeister, Elements of Thermal-Fluid System Design , Prentice Hall, ISBN 0136602185, pages
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
Omphaloskepsis is a derived term of omphaloskeptic.
As nouns the difference between omphaloskeptic and omphaloskepsis
is that omphaloskeptic is one who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy while omphaloskepsis is contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing.As an adjective omphaloskeptic
is likely to, prone to, or engaged in contemplating or meditating upon one's navel.omphaloskeptic
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* omphaloscepticNoun
(en noun)London Magazine , January 1956], page [http://books.google.com/books?q=omphalosceptic&btnG=Search+Books 85,
- The trouble with this book, however, is that he gazes so fixedly at himself that his own eyes dazzle a little. He is not an omphalosceptic . His gaze never turns downwards; it is kept obstinately at face-level.
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- … though you must admit that no omphaloskeptic , nay, not , could have so utterly realized the Infinite as at moments one did to night.
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- Omphalopsychites]]: [[w:H. L. Mencken, Mencken's word for those who dream of bringing American English into line with English English. Omphalos'' is Greek for ''navel'', whence also ''omphaloskeptic'' , one who dreams up bright ideas while gazing at (''skepsis , a looking at) his navel.
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- His coronation as the Grand Omphaloskeptic of the cinema was still more than a decade away.
Adjective
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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).
Usage notes
Both the noun and adjective are often used in a derogative fashion, to indicate that a person is not in tune with reality.Derived terms
* omphaloskepsisomphaloskepsis
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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.
31,
- 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).