See self-actualization on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "self",
"3": "actualization"
},
"expansion": "self- + actualization",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From self- + actualization. Probably applied in this sense by Abraham Maslow.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "self-actualizations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "self-actualization (usually uncountable, plural self-actualizations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with self-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "self-actualize"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled."
],
"id": "en-self-actualization-en-noun-gMXxE889",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "self-realization"
},
{
"word": "self-actualisation"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "自我實現"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìwǒ shíxiàn",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "自我实现"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "selvrealisering"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zelfactualisering"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "itsensä toteuttaminen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Selbstverwirklichung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "önmegvalósítás"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "samoostvaruvanje",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "самоостварување"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "samorealizacja"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "samoostvarenje"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "självförverkligande"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Abraham Maslow"
]
}
],
"word": "self-actualization"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "self-actualize"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "self",
"3": "actualization"
},
"expansion": "self- + actualization",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From self- + actualization. Probably applied in this sense by Abraham Maslow.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "self-actualizations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "self-actualization (usually uncountable, plural self-actualizations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with self-",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Psychology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Abraham Maslow"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "self-realization"
},
{
"word": "self-actualisation"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "自我實現"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìwǒ shíxiàn",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "自我实现"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "selvrealisering"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zelfactualisering"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "itsensä toteuttaminen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Selbstverwirklichung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "önmegvalósítás"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "samoostvaruvanje",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "самоостварување"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "samorealizacja"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "psychological development",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "samoostvarenje"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "psychological development",
"word": "självförverkligande"
}
],
"word": "self-actualization"
}
Download raw JSONL data for self-actualization meaning in All languages combined (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.