formation
noun
the act or process of forming or the state of being formed.
self-formation
-
a word derived from
formation.
Example Sentences
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But enlisting movies and TV to explain the world is Harris’s expertise, arriving at “inadvertent self-formation by way of popular culture.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
In clear and flowing prose, Kalanithi describes his self-formation as a doctor and then the evaporation of that identity as he becomes, again, a patient, starving for time.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2016
This is real life, of course, and there are complications to James’s neat narrative of Bildung, or self-formation.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
Her entire life was a process of self-formation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012
For it is liberty, self-formation, with no existence previous to the process; whereas the laws which govern the development of natural being pre-exist before the development itself.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
