self-qualification
Noun
Meaning
self-qualification (countable and uncountable, plural self-qualifications)
qualification through a first party
Examples
Their hesitancy and self-qualification arise as they meet obstacles, readjust and pass on.
Updike aspires to "this sense of self-qualification, the kind of timid reverence towards what exists that Cézanne shows when he grapples for the shape and shade of a fruit through a mist of delicate stabs."