self-validation.

Recognizing your own feelings, experiences, or judgments as worth taking seriously without depending entirely on others' approval.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• emotional self-validation
• practice self-validation

On the page

Self-validation helped her name the hurt without requiring everyone to agree with her account.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.