soul-searching

1. 1.

   a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives

   Synonymsself-analysis

   Broaderintrospection

Questions about soul-searching

What does soul-searching mean?

soul-searching means "a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives".

How many syllables are in soul-searching?

soul-searching has 4 syllables and divides as so-ul--sear-ching 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 soul-searching?

Close synonyms include self-analysis. 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.