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soulsearching

soulsearching is the alternative form of soul-searching.

soulsearching is the present participle and gerund of soulsearch.

Meaning of soul-searching

Adjective

soul-searching (comparative more soul-searching, superlative most soul-searching)

  1. Involving probing introspection, or a critical consideration of one's conscience, especially motives and values.
    • Fortune had showered upon him gifts unlooked for; had enabled him, had he been blessed with prudence, to keep the path where he could have been free from ostentatious obligation, on the one hand, and soul searching mortification on the other: but, like an improvident spendthrift, he had lavished...1794, Henry Fielding, “Mr. Henry Fielding”, in The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cured. A Ballad Farce, in Two Acts, Written by Mr. Henry Fielding. As Performed at the Theatres-Royal, Covent-Garden...

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Forms of soulsearching

comparativemore soulsearching
superlativemost soulsearching

Questions about soulsearching

What is soulsearching the alternative form of?
Soulsearching is the alternative form of soul-searching.

Words near soulsearching in the dictionary

  1. soulscot
  2. soulscots
  3. soulsearch
  4. soulsearched
  5. soulsearches
  6. soulsearching
  7. soulsful
  8. soulsick
  9. soulslike
  10. Soulslikes
  11. soulster

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