self-exploration

American  

[self-ek-spler-ay-shuhn] / ˌsɛlfˌɛk splərˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

• self-explorations
  plural

1. the process of deepening one's self-understanding by considering and analyzing one's own feelings, beliefs, motivations, values, etc.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• self-explorations
  plural

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Through this journey of self-exploration I have come to realize how coercive gender-identity ideology was for me, disguising harm as compassion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Through decades of self-exploration and groundbreaking scientific studies, Wim has created a simple, effective way to stimulate these deep physiological processes and realize our full potential,” it states.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2024

She believes music is a form of self-exploration and self-expression, a way to represent the unrepresented.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023

“Brandi’s first, self-titled album made my transition from a very rigid world into a new one of self-exploration less lonely,” Iegre said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

The delight of self-exploration, or the possibly even greater delight of losing one's self in trying to fathom femininity, is a sensation equally foreign to his temperament.

From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

It’s not unusual to meet a modern music lover with an iPod full of opera, country-and-western ballads, show tunes, punk-rock classics, hip-hop remixes, celebrity duets and sensitive singer-songwriter self-explorations.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2015