(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
imperceivable
imperceivable
adj
that cannot be perceived; imperceptible
imperceivably
imperceivably
adv
imperceptibly
implicatively
implicatively
adv
In an implicative way.
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overempirical
overpolemical
overpolemical
adj
Excessively polemical.
provincialism
provincialism
noun
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
(politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
speculativism
speculativism
noun
An approach based on speculation rather than any formal method.