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self-discovery

[ self-di-skuhv-uh-ree ]

noun

  1. the act or process of coming to recognize and understand one’s own assumptions, priorities, behavior, strengths and weaknesses, etc.:

    College is a time of self-discovery and formation for students.

    Decades of suffering and years of therapy culminated in this emotional moment of self-discovery and forgiveness.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-discovery1

First recorded in 1640–50
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Example Sentences

What if an affair is a process of positive self-discovery rather than selfish carnal impulses?

This achievement was a journey full of trials, mistakes, loss, and self-discovery.

She will unearth more than their remains in a quest that becomes a journey of baleful discovery and painful self-discovery.

Valderrama's current Twitter bio reads "Self discovery is my hobby…Changing the world my daily task."

And since then, teenage years have served as a time for rebellion, self-discovery, and cultural decision-making.

Seldom it realises at the outset that it is adventuring in the dark, therein to grope as best it may to self-discovery.

He saw his vanity of that desk in a lurid glow of self-discovery.

He was now on that unwholesome, absorbing, thrilling, dangerous path of self-discovery.

Self-discovery is helpful only when it leads to better ways of self-expression.

I had reached such an elevation on my mountain of Self-discovery, as Esther would have put it, that I commanded vision at last.

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