self-definition
- a word derived from definition.
Example Sentences
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Not to do so is to outsource the right’s self-definition to the most vile and discrediting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
This is not about identity politics but ennui: Even minuscule choices, like what socks to wear, are part of a larger cultural self-definition and viral conversation.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024
His explorations of identity and self-definition, of the importance of the oral tradition in literature, and of his Kiowa heritage were interwoven with reverent evocations of landscape in passages of soaring lyrical prose.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Those who remain “evangelical” by self-definition and do not want their movement to mean what I just called it have the responsibility to wrestle it back in a different direction.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
It is a universe of existence in which a species is committed to its further self-definition in defiance of nature while still dependent upon it.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
