self-education

American  

[self-ej-oo-kay-shuhn] / ˈsɛlfˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the process of becoming educated or generally well-informed through one's own efforts rather than through formal instruction.

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Example Sentences

For the longest time, I’d been thinking about a character who took a childhood pledge of self-education to pursue a dream, and once she’s achieved it, the dream morphs into a nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

As she embarks on an alternately aggressive and awkward sentimental self-education, she’s working from a depressingly limited road map, as far as her own pleasure and desires are concerned.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022

NYWell’s search engine and social media ads link to a Web site that provides assistance ranging from self-education and online peer support to more intensive professional care.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Within all of the racism self-education in which book sales indicate white Americans are engaging, they are likely to keep returning to one refrain.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2020

It points towards acquiring the ability of self-education by means of the library.”

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore