self-expression
noun
the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
self-expressive
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a word derived from
self-expression.
Example Sentences
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Argentina’s Diego Maradona, the wildest and most self-expressive of the great soccer players, was an athlete who lived like a rock star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Holley is volcanically self-expressive in his visual art, whether rending tiny wires into human profiles or planning massive statues from uncut granite and gleaming metal.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
Buttigieg seems to embody a vision of the meritocrat as influencer, giving Clinton-era ideals a contemporary, self-expressive twist.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2019
In contrast, Fierro’s purposeful smudgings and scrapings and smearings convey her uneasiness about gestural expressionism and the self-expressive bombast that often goes with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
How must have thrilled the great Creator's mind With radiant, glad and satisfying joy, Ever new self-expressive forms to find In those six days of rapturous employ!
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
