introrse |
in botany, facing inward; turned toward the center. (Cf. extrorse.) |
introspect |
to examine or consider one's own thoughts, feelings, and sensations. |
introspection |
examination of one's own thoughts, emotions, and sensations; self-scrutiny. |
introspective |
looking inward and examining one's own thoughts or feelings, or tending to do so. |
introversion |
the tendency to pay more attention to oneself than to others or the external world. (Cf. extraversion.) |
introvert |
someone who tends to pay more attention to his or her own thoughts and feelings than to other people or subjects. (Cf. extrovert.) [4 definitions] |
intrude |
to enter or thrust oneself in when not invited or welcomed. [2 definitions] |
intrusion |
the act of intruding, or the state of being intruded upon. [2 definitions] |
intrusive |
bothersome and unwelcome; intruding or apt to intrude. |
intrust |
variant of entrust. |
in truth |
in fact; actually. |
intubate |
of a doctor or other medical personnel, to insert a tube through a patient's mouth and into the upper respiratory tract in order to connect the patient to a machine, a ventilator, that assists in breathing. |
intubation |
the process, carried out by a doctor or other medical personnel, of inserting a tube through a patient's mouth and into the upper respiratory tract in order to connect the patient to a machine, a ventilator, that assists in breathing. [2 definitions] |
intuit |
to know or apprehend directly, without a process of logical thought. |
intuitable |
combined form of intuit. |
intuition |
the power of knowing or apprehending something directly, without learning it consciously or submitting it to processes of logic. [3 definitions] |
intuitive |
of or pertaining to intuition. [3 definitions] |
Inuit |
a member of a group of native people of North America that inhabit areas from Greenland and eastern Canada to Alaska. [3 definitions] |
inulin |
a starchlike polysaccharide used to make fructose and, when water is added to it, glucose. |
inundate |
to cover or overspread with water, esp. a very large amount; flood. [2 definitions] |
inure |
to accustom to something unpleasant, esp. by continuous or lengthy experience. [2 definitions] |