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self-examination

[ self-ig-zam-uh-ney-shuhn, self- ]

noun

  1. examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  2. Medicine/Medical. examination of one's body for signs of illness or disease:

    breast self-examination.



self-examination

noun

  1. scrutiny of one's own conduct, motives, desires, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌself-exˈamining, adjective
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Other Words From

  • self-ex·amin·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-examination1

First recorded in 1640–50
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Example Sentences

All of this requires rigorous self-examination: When you can be anything you want to be, what do you want to be?

To them much is revealed through close leisurely self-examination.

Nowhere in this narrative is there a moment or a mention of open self-examination.

Finally, grant that child the journalistic curiosity and clear-eyed self-examination of Alexander Stille.

Over the next few weeks, Republicans will begin the painful self-examination that follows electoral defeat.

But as his walk in the night-air cooled him, it cooled his ardor of self-examination somewhat.

Dr. Pawe's "metaphysics," with which he was seized from time to time, consisted in a few hours' severe self-examination.

Let it be improved as a motive for self-examination, and a beacon to warn us from similar misconduct.

In self-examination temperance or abstemiousness plays an important rle.

And we in our self-examination to-night can see two roads stretching out before us.

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