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self-creating

self-creating is the present participle and gerund of self-create.

Meaning of self-create

Verb

self-create (third-person singular simple present self-creates, present participle self-creating, simple past and past participle self-created)

  1. (intransitive) To create oneself or itself.
    • To be is to self-create, renovate, and endure.
  2. (transitive) To create (something) on one's own, without help from others.
    • Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their...2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023

Questions about self-creating

What is self-creating the present participle and gerund of?
Self-creating is the present participle and gerund of self-create.

Words near self-creating in the dictionary

  1. self-coups
  2. self-covered
  3. self-create
  4. self-created
  5. self-creates
  6. self-creating
  7. self-crit
  8. self-critical
  9. self-criticism
  10. self-criticisms
  11. self-critique

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-creating (page history and authors); self-create (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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