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taxonomy | omphalocentric |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective omphalocentric is

overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    omphalocentric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing
  • :The omphalocentric process of self-construction and discovery
  • *'>citation
  • *{{quote-book, 1981, Maud Ellmann, Untying the Text: A Post-structuralist Reader, editor=Robert Young, chapter=Disremembering Dedalus, page=204 citation
    • , passage='Finnegans Wake' and 'A Portrait' are both, in their different ways, omphalocentric . }}
  • *{{quote-book, 1987, , With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua, page=211, isbn=0671633139 citation
    • , passage=You could write a whole essay about "looking inward," a sort of omphalocentric option. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1999, Robert Langan, What on Closer Examination Disappears, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, page=92, doi=10.1023/A:1021496922983,
    • , passage=Some would have it that psychoanalysis is an omphalocentric , self-indulgent waste of money and time, best avoided so that one can take the proper pill and properly get on with the business of living.}}

    Derived terms

    *omphalocentrism

    Related terms

    *omphaloskeptic *omphaloscopy