omphalopsychic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who engages in omphaloskepsis, a navel-gazer. rare
    — In many convents of the Greek Church it has been practised since the eleventh century, as it is still by the Omphalopsychics, with whom hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily gazing at the umbilicus.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related to or characterised by navel-gazing (omphaloskepsis). not-comparable,uncommon
    — The hypnotic method, he added, was used by the sculptors of antiquity to make their models hold still, by the “omphalopsychic” monks of Mount Athos staring at their navel, by Indian fakirs converging their eyes on the tip of their nose, […]

词形变化

omphalopsychics plural

词源

词源 1
Back-formation from omphalopsychite: see there for more. By surface analysis, omphalo- + psych- + -ic.
词源 2
Back-formation from omphalopsychite: see there for more. By surface analysis, omphalo- + psych- + -ic.
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