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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:48 pm    Post subject: omphaloskepsis Reply with quote
A.Word.A.Day wrote:
omphaloskepsis (om-fuh-lo-SKEP-sis) noun

Contemplation of one's navel.

[From Greek omphalos (navel) + skepsis (act of looking, examination).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which is also the ancestor of suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), despise, espionage, telescope, spectator, and spectacles.]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=omphaloskepsis

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"Readers whose main interest is literary how-to or criticism can look
elsewhere, in places specifically dedicated to those matters. Doing
too much of it here would smack of omphaloskepsis."
Stanley Schmidt; About Science Fiction; Analog Science Fiction & Fact
(New York); Jun 2001.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually, skepsis means thought.
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