self-education

1. 1.

   the process of educating yourself

   Synonymsself-cultivation

   Broadereducation

Questions about self-education

What does self-education mean?

self-education means "the process of educating yourself".

How many syllables are in self-education?

self-education has 6 syllables and divides as sel-f-e-du-ca-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for self-education?

Close synonyms include self-cultivation. 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.