cultivation
noun
the act or art of cultivating.
self-cultivation
-
a word derived from
cultivation.
Example Sentences
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Königsberg, the home of Immanuel Kant, supplied a civic vocabulary: law, citizenship and Bildung—the ideal of self-cultivation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
According to the paper, private self-cultivation would be permitted to a limited extent.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2022
In Japanese culture, everyday aesthetic practices are a moral and religious form of self-cultivation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
On one hand: the Aristotelian ideal of self-cultivation, continuous progress toward a telos.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2017
There it showed itself in gallantry, in love of show, and in a devotion to amusement and to self-cultivation which internal peace had at length made possible.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
