self-questioning

Noun

Meaning

self-questioning (plural self-questionings)

contemplation on one's actions, beliefs, etc.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

contemplation introspection rumination introversion self-examination meditation self-awareness self-knowledge self-fulfillment self-discovery self-absorption

Antonyms

selfish narcissistic

Examples

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. Sylvia Plath

[Peter] Novick does not mention that there has never been much self-questioning by Zionists on what they could have done more to save European Jews, or perhaps, given the history of collaboration of the Zionist movement with the Nazis, whether they could have done less to hurt them. Joseph Massad

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. Tony Judt

Close letter words and terms

self-qualifying self-quantifier self-quarantine self-radiant self-radiating self-radicalize