self-understanding
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As Artie pursues a haphazard path toward better self-understanding, Ms. Strout deploys the fictional strategies that have made her novels feel as if they are about more than ordinary subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
He views astrology, in which he’s been interested for decades, as falling somewhere between “a fun game” and “a beautiful roadmap,” a tool in his quest for self-understanding instead of a religious truth.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024
The story of identity formation is deeply personal, based on the sedimentation of experience, self-understanding, and the ascriptions of others.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023
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
Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.
From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard
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