self-analysis

1. 1.

   a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives

   Synonymssoul-searching

   Broaderintrospection
2. 2.

   the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

   Broaderpsychotherapy

Questions about self-analysis

What does self-analysis mean?

self-analysis means "a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in self-analysis?

self-analysis has 5 syllables: sel-f-a-na-ly-sis. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for self-analysis?

Close synonyms include soul-searching. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-analysis a common word?

self-analysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.