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: sel-f-e-du-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

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.

Is self-education a common word?

self-education 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.