Self-actualization
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Self-actualization is a noun meaning Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.
Meaning
Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.
Example Sentences
This is not an exercise in self-actualization at other people's expense. That's what you've been doing up until now. This is about acknowledging your faults to the people you've hurt without hurting them more.
The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.
Word Forms
- self-actualizations
- self-actualisation
Synonyms for self-actualization
Depending on context, synonyms include self-realization.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-realization, self-discovery, selfhood, ego-expansion, entelechy, apotheosis.
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