Usually means: Improving oneself through skills, habits.
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  1. personal development: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. personal-development: Wordnik
  3. Personal Development, Personal development: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. personal development: Wiktionary

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  1. Personal development: Legal dictionary
  2. Personal development: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (personal development)

▸ noun:  activities that improve one's abilities

Similar:
self-improvement, self-advancement, bettering, cultivation, self-fulfillment, enhancement, self-pride, egoboost, personal conduct, people skills, more...

Opposite:
regression, decline, deterioration, retrogression, degeneration

Types:
self-awareness, self-regulation, social skills, motivation, more...

Phrases:
self actualisation personal development, more...

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Similar:
self-improvement, self-advancement, bettering, cultivation, self-fulfillment, enhancement, self-pride, egoboost, personal conduct, people skills, more...

Opposite:
regression, decline, deterioration, retrogression, degeneration

Types:
self-awareness, self-regulation, social skills, motivation, more...

Phrases:
self actualisation personal development, more...



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