Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun navel-gazing

1 sense of navel-gazing

Sense 1
omphaloskepsis, navel-gazing -- (literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption)
       => self-absorption -- (preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else)