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self-expression

self-expression noun: the means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.

Noun

self-expression (countable and uncountable, plural self-expressions)

  1. The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
    • Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states...2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the...

self-expression meaning in Vietnamese

self-expression in Vietnamese

showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions
tự bạch

Forms of self-expression

pluralself-expressions

Origin of self-expression

From self- + expression.

Questions about self-expression

What does self-expression mean?
Self-expression means the means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
What is self-expression in Vietnamese?
Self-expression in Vietnamese is tự bạch. See Self-expression meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is self-expression?
Self-expression is a noun.
What is the plural of self-expression?
The plural of self-expression is self-expressions.

Words near self-expression in the dictionary

  1. self-experimentation
  2. self-experimented
  3. self-experimenting
  4. self-experiments
  5. self-explanatory
  6. self-expression
  7. self-expressions
  8. self-extinguishing
  9. self-fabric
  10. self-faced
  11. self-facial

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