Usually means: Realizing one's fullest personal potential.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word self-actualization:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-actualization: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-actualization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-actualization, self-actualization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Self-Actualization, self-actualization: Wordnik
  5. self-actualization: Wiktionary
  6. self-actualization: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. self-actualization: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. self-actualization: Dictionary.com
  9. self-actualization: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Self-actualization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. self-actualization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Self-Actualization: Management Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-actualization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. self-actualization: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (self-actualization)

▸ noun:  Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.

Similar:
self-realization, self-discovery, selfhood, ego-expansion, entelechy, apotheosis, psychovitality, wish fulfilment, psychological hedonism, reality principle, more...

Opposite:
self-negation, self-abnegation, self-renunciation

Types:
contentment, happiness, gratification, satisfaction, pleasure, more...
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Similar:
self-realization, self-discovery, selfhood, ego-expansion, entelechy, apotheosis, psychovitality, wish fulfilment, psychological hedonism, reality principle, more...

Opposite:
self-negation, self-abnegation, self-renunciation

Types:
contentment, happiness, gratification, satisfaction, pleasure, more...



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