self-knowledge.

Understanding of your own motives, feelings, abilities, and limitations.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• deeper self-knowledge
• gain self-knowledge

On the page

Failure gave him a degree of self-knowledge that success had never demanded.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Writing functions: identity, reflection, character development. Commonness: moderately common. Selected for independent meaning, not mechanical self-prefix padding.