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单词 self-invention
释义

self-invention

noun

self-in·​ven·​tion ˌself-in-ˈven-shən How to pronounce self-invention (audio)
plural self-inventions
: the act or an instance of inventing or creating one's identity or conception of oneself
her self-invention as a pop star
Bob Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist, celebrating the capacity for self-invention as the highest form of freedom. Cass R. Sunstein
… I've been poring online … over certain performances, interesting myself in those moments when [David] Bowie seems on the cusp of one of his celebrated self-inventions Brian Dillon

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

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