SELF-IMPROVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-improvement mean? 

• SELF-IMPROVEMENT (noun)
  The noun SELF-IMPROVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of improving yourself

  Familiarity information: SELF-IMPROVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-IMPROVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of improving yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-improvement; self-reformation

Hypernyms ("self-improvement" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-improvement"):

auto-suggestion; autosuggestion; self-suggestion (a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s)

reform (self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice)

 Context examples 

If you are still capable of self-improvement, of which I am frankly unconvinced, you will surely return to London a wiser man.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)