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self-cultivation

self-cultivation

6.7
Working to improve yourself by learning and changing your habits
  • noun
  • /sɛlfˌkʌl.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/
translation icon : autocultivo
  • Through self-cultivation, he learned to manage his stress and enhance his well-being.
  • the process of self-cultivation
  • self-cultivation and self-transformation
  • the idea of self-cultivation

Some of it is social, some of it is something like self cultivation tending toward effort to acquire virtue.

Examples

  • Moral education, as "the formation of character," is a form of self-cultivation, and as such, it is a lifetime endeavor.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The mission of a person bent on self-cultivation is then to assist in the unfolding of the transcendental reality in this world.

    Academic text (2016)
  • When following a program of self-cultivation, where does the curriculum come from?

    Academic text (2016)
  • In his advice to the king, he was simply addressing the question of self-cultivation.

    Academic text (2016)
  • And so if elites have a culture today, it is a culture of individual self-cultivation.

    Blog text (3)
  • In the process of self-cultivation, as Tu sees it, there occurs a 'transcendental breakthrough,' a leap to a dimension other than the secular.

    Academic text (2016)
  • China's foreign policy exhibits no global ambitions or messianic ideological plans, limiting itself to self-cultivation.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The average citizen, the PHS authors believed, had "unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, self-understanding, and creativity."

    Academic text (2013)
  • Self-cultivation helps individuals grow and improve their personal skills over time.

  • She dedicated her evenings to self-cultivation by reading books on psychology and philosophy.

Synonyms

self-improvement
vsself-cultivation
12 4.0

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

is broader, adding deliberate education and overall personal development
personal growth
vsself-cultivation
10 4.0

To improve yourself by learning about your feelings and skills over time

is more educational and skill focused rather than inward reflection
cultivation
vsself-cultivation
  • Formal
4 3.8

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

is inward personal development rather than social refinement and polish
self-education
vsself-cultivation
3 4.1

Learning by yourself without a teacher or school

is broader, covering both personal growth and deliberate learning
lifelong learning
vsself-cultivation
3 3.5

Continuing to learn new skills and knowledge throughout your life

is any personal development not necessarily continuous across the whole life

Antonyms

19 6.8

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

How Cultivated

self-cultivation
6.7
education
572 1.0
learning
508 1.0
ignorance
316 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

self-cultivation = cultivation (transparent) = self + cultivation

Clear composition of 'self' + 'cultivation' meaning cultivation of oneself; learners who know the components can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Self-cultivation combines self ('your own') and cultivation ('to grow' or 'to tend a garden'). So, think of it like gardening for yourself: you carefully care for your habits and skills so you can grow and improve.