self-realization

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís

Proto-Italic *reis

Classical Latin rēs

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin reālisder.

Old French reel

French real

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izārebor.

Old French -iser

French -iser

French réaliser

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ation

Middle French -ation

French -ation

French réalisation

English realization

English self-realization

From self- + realization.

Noun

self-realization (countable and uncountable, plural self-realizations)

1. The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
   • 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News‎^[1], page 16:

     We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.

2. The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
3. A realization about oneself.
   • 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an

     Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.