Self-realization

Quick meaning: Self-realization is a noun meaning The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.

Meaning

The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.

More Meanings

1. The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
2. A realization about oneself.

Example Sentences

We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.

1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.

Word Forms

• self-realizations

Synonyms for self-realization

Depending on context, synonyms include self-fulfillment, self-realisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-fulfillment, self-realisation, self, realization, self-actualization, selfhood.

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