Definition of Self-fulfillment

1. Noun. The fulfillment of your capacities.

Exact synonyms: Self-realisation, Self-realization
Generic synonyms: Fulfillment, Fulfilment

Definition of Self-fulfillment

1. Noun. The full use of one's own abilities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-fulfillment

self-explanatory
self-expression
self-feeder
self-feeling
self-fertile
self-fertilisation
self-fertilised
self-fertilization
self-fertilized
self-flagellation
self-flattery
self-forgetful
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment (current term)
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification
self-harm
self-harmer
self-hating
self-hatred
self-help
self-help devices
self-help groups
self-hypnosis

Literary usage of Self-fulfillment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Are Military Adultery Standards Changing: Congressional Hearing edited by Sam Brownback (2000)
"It is based on an ethic of individual desire and self-fulfillment that opposes and corrodes the ethic of self-sacrifice without which no military force can ..."

2. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"And he can only be a self by finding his own self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction through the growth of finite selves in self-fulfillment. ..."

3. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"And he can only be a self by finding his own self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction through the growth of finite selves in self-fulfillment. ..."

4. America's Coming-of-age by Van Wyck Brooks (1915)
"Because it was for so long the law of the tribe economic self-assertion still remains to most Americans a sort of moral obligation; while self-fulfillment ..."

5. America's Coming-of-age by Van Wyck Brooks (1915)
"Because it was for so long the law of the tribe economic self-assertion still remains to most Americans a sort of moral obligation; while self-fulfillment ..."

6. The God who Found Himself Or the God of Science and the Illusion of Self: An by Alfred Ward Smith (1914)
"It is a theory of the self-development and self-fulfillment of the one and only Being of the world. It is, therefore, a philosophy of self-realization and ..."

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