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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

autodidatismo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ow-to-di-da-tiz-mu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Autodidacticism/ˌɔː.toʊ.daɪˈdæk.tɪ.sɪ.zəm/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O autodidatismo é essencial para quem busca o desenvolvimento contínuo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The practice of self-education; the act of learning a subject or acquiring skills independently without formal instruction.

    "Through intense dedication to autodidacticism, she mastered three programming languages within a single year."
  2. 2

    The philosophy or principles underlying self-directed learning and personal knowledge acquisition.

    "His educational essays emphasized the value of autodidacticism in fostering genuine intellectual curiosity."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek 'autodidaktos' (self-taught), combining 'autos' (self) and 'didaktos' (taught), with the English suffix '-ism' added in the 19th century. The term evolved to formally describe the practice or habit of self-directed education and independent learning without the guidance of a formal instructor.

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