self-activity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

self-determination independence autonomy volunteer self-government spontaneity automatism self-action cybernation eponymous action autonymous action autonymous activity namesake action namesake behavior namesake deed
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Antonyms

dependence enslaving over-reliance

Examples

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. Thomas Carlyle

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. John Lancaster Spalding

The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth. John Lancaster Spalding

Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity and as an alternative co-operative economic system with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs. Source: Internet

The most interesting of these, those that are relevant to my current purpose, have been those which insisted on the primacy of the self-activity and creativity of people in struggle against capitalism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-action self-activating self-active self-actor self-actualisation self-actualise