self-knowledge

noun

Definition of self-knowledgenext
as in self-realization

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Recent Examples of self-knowledge Processing the abuse, Majors says, has led to more self-knowledge about his behavior in relationships. — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025 These are self-knowledge, adding value, and relationships. — Cathleen Swody, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025 This advancement would offer everyone a convenient and noninvasive way to stay informed and proactively manage their own health, beginning a new era of human self-knowledge. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-knowledge
  1. self-realization
  2. self-discovery
  3. self-exploration
  4. self-fulfillment
  5. self-revelation
  6. self-image
  7. self-concept
  8. self-perception
Noun
  • Both young actors are superb, each zigzagging along that fine line between immature posturing and actual, exhilarating self-realization, evoking that transitional stage through which girls like them can often seem at least three ages at once.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • These songs act as cognitive time capsules, evoking moments of heartbreak, discovery, and self-realization.
    — Diana Spehar, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of self-realization
Noun
  • Your heart is going through a phase of self-discovery.
    — USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Michelle's and Dorothy's journey of self-discovery do share a remarkable verisimilitude if studied at a relative distance.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-discovery
Noun
  • In her thirties, Mosley began a deep journey of self-exploration.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The affair becomes a misguided attempt at self-exploration, a way to recapture freedom, desirability or excitement that seems absent in daily life.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Definition of self-exploration
Noun
  • These cultures tend to view divorce as a justifiable and often necessary step toward self-fulfillment.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This is Mascaro’s most humane film to date, which isn’t to say that August Winds and Neon Bull weren’t also grounded in the individual’s struggle for self-fulfillment outside the strictures of bourgeois circumscribed society.
    — Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
Definition of self-fulfillment
Noun
  • The parallels here are unsubtle, but Falconer’s delicate and impressively assured direction smoothes them into something honest, so that even the moments that might seem obvious to us roil with self-revelation.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Like Ito, Miller’s narrative finds a galvanizing energy in self-revelation.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of self-revelation
Noun
  • Learning to build self-worth beyond physical appearance and shifting from seeking external validation to cultivating inner self-acceptance can gradually help restore confidence, leading to healthier relationships and a more positive self-image. 4.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But after years of struggling with her self-image, an unexpected theory has helped one millennial woman make an eye-opening realization.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-image
Noun
  • For instance, a 2019 study published in Personal Relationships shows that self-concept clarity — having a strong and stable sense of self — directly predicts greater relationship satisfaction for both partners.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Developed by psychologists in the 1950s, the test measures an individual's self-concept, or beliefs, attitudes and perceptions.
    — Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-concept
Noun
  • To Feedback Feedback that challenges our self-perception often triggers emotional responses that hinder its effectiveness.
    — Sandro da Silva, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Many of my clients struggle with self-perception rather than actual appearance.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-perception

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