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soul-search

noun soul-searches · soulsearch · soul search

  1. countable An act or instance of soul-searching. Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.
  2. uncountable The process of deep and critical self-examination. Moreover, just as the adherents of the new protest ideologies have been involved in a soul-search of their own identities and thus involved in struggles to make and to declare choices, so likewise the national society is engaged in soul-search and choice.

verb soul-searches · soul-searching · soul-searched · soulsearch · soul search

  1. To engage in deep and critical self-examination. These are the times when you should take a deep breath and deeply soul-search your own actions to see whether you could have done anything at all that would have increased your tip.

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@misc{soul_search_2026,
  title = {soul-search},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soul-search},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}