Used in a Sentence

self-actualization

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for self-actualization.

Editorial note

It offers wishes and naive hopeful dreams of a global population suddenly achieving self-actualization all at once.

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Quick take

Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of self-actualization gathered in one view.

noun

Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for self-actualization.

noun

Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.

Example sentences

1

It offers wishes and naive hopeful dreams of a global population suddenly achieving self-actualization all at once.

2

It's natural and healthy that people also strive for financial security, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

3

Rogerian client-centered therapy could help an individual go beyond the need for acceptance from their peer group to self-actualization (green to yellow).

4

You can work to start to remove the filter too, this is called self-actualization.

5

He had another insight that self-actualization, as it was understood in the 60s and 70s, is probably a process and not a final state.

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But it also has a huge cost in adult self-actualization and development.

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And that changes the personal self-actualization path calculus for me considerably.

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Esteem and self-actualization are way up there at the top.

9

I was thinking of it in the abstract -- is the choice between self-actualization or misery -- and that seemed too extreme.

10

The road to self-actualization is often riddled with potholes.

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I think most heavy social drinking is done by weak willed conformists who are looking to fit-in rather than cultivate their own individuality through self-actualization.

12

Essentially full middle class-ness stops at self-actualization.

Quote examples

1

To "be awesomer" then is to be do more of that thing which fills you with purpose and meaning and (since your time and resources are finite) to do it at the cost of all the other things that just grind away at your life yet you feel no purpose, meaning, or self-actualization from.

2

Realizing how fortunate we all are to be here in this cultivated "world" of intellectualism--of the attitude we all have developed through our own stories similar to this boy's--discussing the merits of self-realization (who I am) the requisites of self-actualization (what I can do) is what is important here.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use self-actualization in a sentence?

It offers wishes and naive hopeful dreams of a global population suddenly achieving self-actualization all at once.

What does self-actualization mean?

Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.

What part of speech is self-actualization?

self-actualization is commonly used as noun.