OMPHALOSKEPSIS

PRONUNCIATION: (om-fuh-lo-SKEP-sis)

MEANING: noun:
1. Contemplation of one’s navel.
2. Complacent self-indulgent introspection.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek omphalos (navel) + skepsis (act of looking, examination). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe), which also gave us suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), despise, espionage, telescope, spectator, and spectacles. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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OOMPHALOSKEPSIS - I'm not sure I have enough energy to get up today

EMPHALOSKEPSIS - uncertainty about the correctness of making one thing more prominent than another

OOP-HALO-SKEPSIS - i refuse to believe this Cro-Magnon with an aura is really a saint.