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self-discovery

noun

Etymology

From self- + discovery.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from discoperīre
  3. derived from descovrir
  4. inherited from discoveren
  5. suffixed as discovery — “discover + ery”
  6. prefixed as self-discovery — “self + discovery”

Definitions

  1. The action or process of achieving self-knowledge.

    • The X-Men films have made an explicit connection between the mutants’ powers and pubescent self-discovery, but perhaps it’s necessary to address the last few movies’ psychosexual subtext.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-discovery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA