SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of improving yourself

Synonyms:

self-improvement; self-reformation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)