self-fulfillment

[ self-fool-fil-muhnt, self- ]

noun

1. the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-fulfillment¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

She's romance, self-fulfillment and, as you've said, the last dream of my youth.

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He does not labour for his own self-fulfillment and nothing more.

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A spirit not connected with a body is without a technique, without the mechanical means of self-expression or self-fulfillment.

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Self-fulfillment, the instinct to nurture and to ensure continuity are all at work in such cases.

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Education that processes humans for jobs promises access to abundance, but not to self-fulfillment.

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