omphaloskeptic means likely to, prone to, or engaged in contemplating or meditating upon one's navel. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
omphaloskeptic is pronounced /ˌɒm.fəl.əˈskɛp.tɪk/.
Why “omphaloskeptic” is a great word
OMPHALOSKEPTIC — [Adjective] Prone to or engaged in contemplating one's navel, as a metaphor for excessive introspection. From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, "navel") + σκέψις (sképsis, "perception, reflection"). Earliest evidence from around 1915, in a letter by Aldous Huxley. Unlike "introspective," which denotes a broad, potentially productive self-examination, or "solipsistic," a philosophical denial of reality beyond the self, omphaloskeptic describes a circular gaze that has collapsed inward. It is the mystic mistaking his own heartbeat for the rhythm of the cosmos, the poet lost in a labyrinth of personal metaphor, or the mind so absorbed by its own reflection it forgets the window it stares through—a quiet devotion where the map of the world shrinks to the circumference of one's own skin.
adj
- Likely to, prone to, or engaged in contemplating or meditating upon one's navel.“This approach has been referred to as an omphaloskeptic method of design, so called after the term omphaloskepsis used to describe the technique of meditation through contemplation of the navel (from the Greek "omphalos" for navel and "skepsis" for examination).”
noun
- One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.“The trouble with this book, however, is that he gazes so fixedly at himself that his own eyes dazzle a little. He is not an omphalosceptic. His gaze never turns downwards; it is kept obstinately at face-level.”