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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION

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adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Justification is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-JUSTIFICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-justification

Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs, that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.

Definition of self-justification in the English dictionary

The definition of self-justification in the dictionary is the act or an instance of justifying or providing excuses for one's own behaviour, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-JUSTIFICATION

self-induction
self-inductive
self-indulgence
self-indulgent
self-indulgently
self-inflicted
self-insurance
self-interest
self-interested
self-interestedness
self-justifying
self-knowledge
self-levelling feet
self-levelling foot
self-liquidating
self-loader
self-loading
self-loathing
self-locking
self-love

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-JUSTIFICATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of self-justification in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «self-justification» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION

Find out the translation of self-justification to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-justification from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-justification» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我辩解
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autojustificación
570 millions of speakers

English

self-justification
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म औचित्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تبرير الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самооправдание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

autojustificação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-আত্মপক্ষ সমর্থন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

auto- justification
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembenaran diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbstrechtfertigung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己弁護
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 정당화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabeneran dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự biện minh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய நியாயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची समर्थन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini haklı çıkarma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto-giustificazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samo uzasadnienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самовиправдання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- justificare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - δικαιολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- regverdiging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självrättfärdigande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

self- begrunnelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-justification

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFICATION»

The term «self-justification» is normally little used and occupies the 115.853 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFICATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-justification

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-JUSTIFICATION»

Discover the use of self-justification in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-justification and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish ...
Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell?
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson, 2008
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The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology
In this significant book Mark C. Mattes critically evaluates the role of justification in the theologies of five leading Protestant thinkers -- Eberhard Jungel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert W. Jenson, and Oswald Bayer -- ...
Mark C. Mattes, 2004
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Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
4. Modern. life's. project. of. self-justification. i. Reason, science, and modern affirmations The transition to "Reason" After concluding the section on the " unhappy consciousness," Hegel begins an entirely new section titled "Reason." Hegel's ...
Terry Pinkard, 1996
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Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science
The next personality type to explore is those who participate in offhand self- justification. These people automatically make excuses or become defensive when questioned. Steps toward prevention of this natural response include personal ...
Robin T. Bowen, 2009
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Delayed Project Terminations in the Venture Capital Context: ...
This is confirmed by the positive moderating effect of freedom to make decisions on the total effect of the need for self-justification, which is discussed in the next section. When trying to optimize organizational decision processes in respect to ...
Dominik Steinkühler, 2010
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The Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran approach ...
When humans stand before the abyss of the hidden and unbound divine will, they have no other recourse but to attempt to oppose and control God by their self -justification. By leaving the sphere of grace, humans enter into the sphere of law,  ...
Jack D. Kilcrease, 2013
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The Structure of Justification
Surely coherentists would not wish to be committed to countenancing even partial self -justification. They have traditionally denied that self-justification is possible; and even partial self-justification, which entails (though it is not equivalent to) ...
Robert Audi, 1993
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A Violent Heart: Understanding Aggressive Individuals
SELF- JUSTIFICATION THEORY People have the need to view themselves and their actions as right and blameless. This is called self-justification. Once we have normalized our thoughts and behaviors, whatever they may be, we can then ...
Gregory K. Moffatt, 2002
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Social Dilemmas: Perspectives on Individuals and Groups
Some of these explanations seemed to have gone as far as saying that self- justification was of little or no significance in accounting for entrapment. For example, Whyte (1986) argued that prospect theory (Tversky & Kah- neman, 1981) was ...
David A. Schroeder, 1995
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With All That We Have Why Aren't We Satisfied?
GRACE AND SELF-JUSTIFICATION One of the things that undermines our experience of grace most is self-justification. “Justification” means “being acceptable to God” and "self-justification” means doing something to make ourselves ...
Clifford Williams, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFICATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-justification is used in the context of the following news items.
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Support Scammers and Self-Justification
I recently responded to a couple of comments on one of my articles for WeLiveSecurity – Support desk scams: CLSID not unique -on the CLSID ploy used by ... «We Live Security, Jul 15»
2
Racism and the Modern Self
Thus, “self-justification becomes both tenacious and ever-suspect” (221). The anxiety induced by the tenuousness of our claims to knowledge and value “gives ... «First Things, Jul 15»
3
​A Radically Toxic Combination
With this understanding, sinners can cease their efforts of self-justification, having faith in the grace and mercy of God—which always had been offered, even ... «First Things, Jul 15»
4
Oren's Orgy of Self-Justification By Jim Zogby
In his new book, "Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide", former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, relates how late one night he ... «Al-Jazeerah.info, Jul 15»
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Oren's Orgy of Self-Justification
In his new book, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, relates how late one night he ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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One Step Leads to Another: FIFA and the Corruption Pyramid
The process of self-justification is an accruing process-that gains energy or steam. Or perhaps we could liken it to the snowball effect, a small snowball ... «Patheos, May 15»
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): 'Blind Spots'
Self-justification not only minimizes our mistakes and bad decisions; it is also ... Yet mindless self-justification, like quicksand, can draw us deeper into disaster. «ValueWalk, May 15»
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Peter Stanford: Common sense can mitigate turf wars
It can rein in egos, cut through self-justification, insist on reasonable safeguards and judge proportion. But it can't be legislated for. It is impossible to measure by ... «Third Sector, Feb 15»
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Job and Justification
Elihu hears ll of Job's self-defense is a self-justification, and not only a self-justification before the three friends but in Yahweh's court. Elihu somehow intends his ... «First Things, Jan 15»
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Why We Justify Regrettable Actions: A Psychological Perspective
One of the most relevant considerations of self-justification from a psychological perspective is Carol Travis and Elliot Aronson's well named book, Mistakes ... «PsychCentral.com, Dec 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Self-Justification [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-justification>. Apr 2024 ».
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