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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-examination
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Regular self-examination of your breasts is important.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result of that intense period of creative self-examination all the symphonies as they are played today date from after 1945.
▪ But do not get into the habit of morbid self-examination.
▪ Crisis in this context describes a period of intensive self-examination in which one's beliefs and values are re-examined.
▪ It set off a wave of self-examination across the country.
▪ Out of that self-examination, other actions in their lives may follow.
▪ The problem is that skipping the self-examination is something like finding yourself in a maze with a blindfold on.
▪ The proliferation of media studies centers at leading universities can play an increasingly important role in fostering critical self-examination of the media.
▪ This proliferating self-examination, however, has often been seen as an unlikeable, irresponsible tendency in contemporary literature.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-examination

Self-examination \Self`-ex*am`i*na"tion\, n. An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-examination

1640s, from self- + examination.

Wiktionary
self-examination

n. An examination of oneself.

WordNet
self-examination

n. the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct [syn: introspection, self-contemplation]

Usage examples of "self-examination".

It was disconcerting for Helva to watch her frustrated, brooding self-examination while Nia and Kurla chattered inconsequentialities in the galley.

A fishy man loved to kill whales and lacked the tendency toward self-doubt and self-examination that could get in the way of making a quick decision.

The fear of being swallowed up by this mechanized beast drives executives to orgies of self-examination and students to paroxysms of protest.

Whether it was time spent in self-examination in the gaol, or time spent more salutarily still in thinking of Emma, Philip had done a great deal of growing up in a very short time.

He continued his self-examination: I also argued that a man's own wife and concubines are limited in number while there is an infinite supply of women in the world, so that if he seduces an infinite number of women and pays for it only with a wife or concubine, he is making a huge profit and certainly not taking a loss.