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self-improvements

self-improvements is the plural of self-improvement.

Meaning of self-improvement

Noun

self-improvement (countable and uncountable, plural self-improvements)

  1. The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
    • He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025
  2. The bettering of one's status.
    • In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

Questions about self-improvements

What is self-improvements the plural of?
Self-improvements is the plural of self-improvement.

Words near self-improvements in the dictionary

  1. self-imposing
  2. self-impotent
  3. self-improve
  4. self-improved
  5. self-improvement
  6. self-improvements
  7. self-improves
  8. self-improving
  9. self-incompatibility
  10. self-incompatible
  11. self-incriminate

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