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Self-improvement

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character. countable, uncountable

    "He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism."

  2. 2
    the act of improving yourself wordnet
  3. 3
    The bettering of one's status. countable, uncountable

    "In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society"."

Etymology

From self- + improvement.

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