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Self-discovery

Definition: Self-discovery

Self-discovery

Noun

1. Discovering your own individuality.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Self-discovery

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kokology 2: More of the Game of Self-Discovery (reference)

  • The Life Strategies Self-Discovery Journal: Finding What Matters Most for You (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Awaken to the Eternal: Nisargadatta Maharaj -- A Journey of Self-Discovery (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Self-discovery

"Self-discovery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Self-discovery" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90%9117,287
Adjective (general or positive)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-discovery

Language Translations for "self-discovery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

自已发现. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

각자 발견. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-discoverysay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-discovery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-l-o-r-s-s-v-y"

-3 letters: redissolve.

-4 letters: coderives, coverless, coverlids, creolised, creolises, desilvers, discloser, discovers, discovery, dissolver, diversely, divorcees, evildoers, forceless, foresides, overflies, oversides, sclereids, sclerosed, solecised, versicles, voiceless.

-5 letters: clevises, codeless, coderive, codrives, cordless, coreless, coverlid, creolise, decoyers, defilers, deforces, delivers, delivery, descries, desilver, devisers, devisors, devoices, dioceses, disclose, discover, disserve, dissever, dissolve, divorcee, divorces, dressily, evildoer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Self-discovery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 64 69 73 63 6F 76 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0064 0069 0073 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371787215707585698188718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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