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SELF-REFORMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-reformation mean? 

SELF-REFORMATION (noun)
  The noun SELF-REFORMATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of improving yourselfplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SELF-REFORMATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of improving yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-improvement; self-reformation

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

improvement (the act of improving something)

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

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)


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