self-understanding

British  

noun

1. the ability to understand one's own actions

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Example Sentences

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 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

That Harry Potter’s journey toward self-understanding echoes the experience of so many trans individuals may explain the widespread sentiment that Rowling has now betrayed her readers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The experience left Aviv, a staff writer at the New Yorker, with an enduring interest in how mental illness shapes self-understanding.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through acceptance of the individual.

From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Bradley, Marion Zimmer