self-understanding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The story of identity formation is deeply personal, based on the sedimentation of experience, self-understanding, and the ascriptions of others.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
That Harry Potter’s journey toward self-understanding echoes the experience of so many trans individuals may explain the widespread sentiment that Rowling has now betrayed her readers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023
The experience left Aviv, a staff writer at the New Yorker, with an enduring interest in how mental illness shapes self-understanding.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.
From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard
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