Meaning of self-expression | Babel Free

Definitions

The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression.”

CEFR level