self-realization
Collocations
3ADJ.
affirmational, joyous
VERB + SELF-REALIZATION
providing
SELF-REALIZATION + NOUN
discovery
Definitions
noun
The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
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.
The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
A realization about oneself.
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.
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Synonyms
noun — the fulfillment of your capacities
- self-fulfillment
- self-realisation
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Idioms & Phrases
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2We 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 pi
Wiktionary1934, 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
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