self-actualization

English

Alternative forms

• self-actualisation

Etymology

From self- +‎ actualization. Probably applied in this sense by Abraham Maslow.

Noun

self-actualization (usually uncountable, plural self-actualizations)

1. Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled. [from 1950]
   • 2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:

     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.

   • 2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Synonyms

• self-realization

Derived terms

• self-actualize

Translations

psychological development

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我實現／自我实现 (zh) (zìwǒ shíxiàn)

• Danish: selvrealisering c
• Dutch: zelfactualisering (nl) f
• Finnish: itsensä toteuttaminen
• German: Selbstverwirklichung (de) f
• Hungarian: önmegvalósítás (hu)
• Macedonian: самоостварување n (samoostvaruvanje)
• Polish: samorealizacja f
• Serbo-Croatian: samoostvarenje (sh) n
• Swedish: självförverkligande (sv)