self-improvement

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ improvement.

Noun

self-improvement (countable and uncountable, plural self-improvements)

1. The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
2. The bettering of one's status.
   • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

     In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".

   • 2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     Ambition and self-improvement are certainly not negatives, although one potential downside to being more self-conscious—especially for punk bands—is muted urgency.

Synonyms

• self-help

Hypernyms

• improvement

Derived terms

• self-improve
• self-improving

Translations

following a disciplined programme to improve one’s health or character

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我改善 (zìwǒ gǎishàn), 自我修養 / 自我修养 (zìwǒ xiūyǎng), 自強 / 自强 (zh) (zìqiáng)

• Czech: sebezdokonalování n
• Dutch: persoonlijke ontwikkeling f
• Estonian: enesetäiendus
• Finnish: itsensä kehittäminen
• French: développement personnel (fr) m
• German: Selbstverbesserung f, Selbstentwicklung f, persönliche Weiterbildung f
• Greek: αυτοβελτίωση (el) f (aftoveltíosi)
• Italian: automiglioramento m, autoperfezionamento m
• Macedonian: самоподобрување n (samopodobruvanje)
• Malagasy: fampihatsaran-tena, fihatsaran-tena
• Polish: rozwój osobisty m
• Russian: самосоверше́нствование (ru) n (samosoveršénstvovanije)
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: самоусавршавање n

  Roman: samousavršavanje n

• Slovak: sebazdokonaľovanie n
• Spanish: superación personal, autosuperación
• Ukrainian: самовдоскона́лення n (samovdoskonálennja), самоудоскона́лення n (samoudoskonálennja)
• Vietnamese: tự cải tiến

References

• self-improvement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia