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Definition: Self-expression |
Self-expressionNoun1. The expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-expression" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
Crosswords: Self-expression |
| Specialty definitions using "self-expression": creative arts, creative expression, creative subjects ♦ expressive arts, expressive subjects ♦ instructor, kindergarten ♦ TEACHER, KINDERGARTEN. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Self-expression" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Self-expression" is used about 44 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.45% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.55% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "self-expression": element-self-expression. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "self-expression"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetëshprehje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自已表示. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sebevyjádření. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκφραση εαυτού, έκφραση ατομικότητασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önkifejezés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각자 표 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-expressionsay auto-expressão. (various references) самовыражение. (various references) izraz vlastite ličnosti. (various references) expresión de la propia personalidad. (various references) kendinden bahsetme, kendi kişiliğini anlatma, özanlatım. (various references) самовираження. (various references) sự tự biểu hiện. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Self-expression" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfexpression. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-x" | |
-3 letters: expressions. | |
-4 letters: expression, foxinesses, reflexions, rifenesses, ripenesses, ropinesses, sleepiness. | |
-5 letters: expresses, expressos, felonries, isoprenes, leprosies, lionesses, noiseless, pelerines, pilseners, professes, prosiness, reexposes, reflexion, responses, spineless, spleenier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 65 78 70 72 65 73 73 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100101 01111000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - e x p r e s s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0065 0078 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537178721571908284718585758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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