Meaning of self-actualization | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“This is not an exercise in self-actualization at other people's expense. That's what you've been doing up until now. This is about acknowledging your faults to the people you've hurt without hurting them more.”

“The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.”

CEFR level