单词 | self-actualized |
释义 | self-actualizedadj. Now chiefly Psychology. Of a person: that has realized or fulfilled his or her true nature or ideal self. Of an action, quality, attribute, etc.: that a person carries out or realizes without external assistance. ΚΠ 1880 W. Cyples Inq. Proc. Human Exper. ix. 229 We are only self-actualised when a certain specific movement is operated in-and-by the Executive System of the physical world. 1928 L. S. Thornton Incarnate Lord xiv. 424 The Eternal Son..became finitely individual in His human organism, while remaining self-actualised as a Divine Person. 1932 E. Underhill Golden Sequence 49 A self-actualized adventure of the independent will and heart. 1952 Philosophy 27 176 It was by no mere chance that Spinoza placed the definition of causa sui (i.e. self-actualized potency) at the head of Ethics I. 1980 Redbook Oct. 58/1 Once I had seen close up what Friedan labeled the ‘self-actualized woman’, I was damned if I would take a chance with anything else. 2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Oct. 55/1 We have a society where women of all ages are striving to become self-actualized sex kittens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1880 |
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