self-education

American  

[self-ej-oo-kay-shuhn] / ˈsɛlfˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the process of becoming educated or generally well-informed through one's own efforts rather than through formal instruction.

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Example Sentences

The burden of electronic health records and increased productivity requirements take time away from self-education.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

For the longest time, I’d been thinking about a character who took a childhood pledge of self-education to pursue a dream, and once she’s achieved it, the dream morphs into a nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Amid this self-education, Pitre found that just intonation samplers bored him because they were more concerned with mechanics than music.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

NYWell’s search engine and social media ads link to a Web site that provides assistance ranging from self-education and online peer support to more intensive professional care.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Education by others, and self-education would be useless, if the same thoughts and feelings could, under the same circumstances, produce now this, now that totally different result, and not always the same one.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.