Dictionary

self-expression en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English expression English self-expression From self- + expression.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
   • Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression. 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2022:

Forms

Translations (9)

tr öz ifade (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · pt autoexpressão (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · el αυτοέκφραση (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · cmn 自我表達 /自我表达 (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · uk самови́раження (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · be самавыяўле́нне (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · vi tự bạch (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · ru самовыраже́ние (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions) · hu önkifejezés (showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions)