self-understanding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “The Mattering Instinct” is an attempt to place human self-understanding on a new footing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The point of opening the caskets of our forgotten history is to foster the self-understanding necessary to empower the work of creating a future that upholds the democratic creed that “all men are created equal.”
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024
Unfortunately, the last section of “The Age of Guilt,” titled “Embrace the Ideals,” takes a very odd turn away from the Freudian effort at increased freedom through deeper, if incomplete, self-understanding.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
A sympathetic, well-wrought story of a brilliant young woman’s slow crawl toward self-understanding after her life is upended by a horrible accident.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
Paul did not dare to say how warm a welcome he accorded to this suggestion, but it was dangerously sweet to him, and he had self-understanding enough to recognise that fact.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
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