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personal growth

personal growth

10 4.0
To improve yourself by learning about your feelings and skills over time
  • noun
  • /ˈpɜrsənl ɡroʊθ/
translation icon : desarrollo personal
  • Participating in workshops can enhance your personal growth by helping you develop new skills and insights.
  • personal growth and development
  • personal growth and professional
  • personal growth experience

So you have to balance personal growth of each individual person on the platform.

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Examples

  • The "pull" factor refers to people who leave home voluntarily for personal growth or to study abroad.

    Academic text (2012)
  • As students add to their portfolios, they see their personal growth rather than where they fall in the performance hierarchy.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And yeah, I think personal growth is so powerful.

  • And I like personal growth and self development.

  • So you have to balance personal growth of each individual person on the platform.

  • What role I bring all that up to say, what role has personal growth played in your professional growth?

  • Personal growth factors in students were related to personal growth factors in both parents.

    Academic text (1992)
  • I know this when I look at the changing patterns of my own personal growth.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • No, I'm just focusing on myself for the time being, doing a bit of personal growth.

  • The first and most important priority in a student-centered approach is the personal growth of each student.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

growth
vspersonal growth
1.6

An increase in size, number, or importance of something

is a reflective process of intentional character and ability improvement
self-improvement
vspersonal growth
12 4.0

A process of trying to make yourself better in skills, knowledge, or habits

emphasizes reflective practice and growing character and inner knowledge over time
self-discovery
vspersonal growth
11 4.5

Finding out who you are, your feelings, and why you do things

focuses more on changing and improving character and abilities over time
cultivation
vspersonal growth
  • Formal
4 3.8

Developing and improving a person's mind, manners, or social skills

applies to wider inner change including abilities, reflection, and character
self-cultivation
vspersonal growth
6.7

Working to improve yourself by learning and changing your habits

stresses deliberate reflection and broad character and ability improvement

Antonyms

19 6.8

A period when activity and growth stop, often in business or the economy

How Developed

maturity
101 3.3
personal growth
10 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

personal + growth

The meaning 'the process of improving character, self-knowledge, or abilities' is directly derivable from combining 'personal' (relating to the person) with 'growth' (process of development). This simple compositional noun phrase follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Personal growth creates the image of a small plant you care for: personal is you and growth is getting bigger. If you water and give time and effort, the plant slowly grows, so the phrase means 'improving yourself' over time.