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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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