1. navel-gazing - Noun
2. navel-gazing - Verb
literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
Source: WordNetnavel gazing
There are times when it's worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature, in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is. Greg Egan
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing. Mark Barrowcliffe
He leads us away from navel-gazing to see the stunningly constructed drama he and his troupe have laid before us on screen. Source: Internet
Also, my first career was as a therapist, so I'm introspective and navel-gazing to a fault. Source: Internet
Instead of acknowledging these issues, the author is infuriatingly defensive and navel-gazing about it all. Source: Internet
Introspective navel-gazing doesn't go over too well. Source: Internet