Definition of "self-searching" []

• Self-questioning. (noun)

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• "Do you feel this is now "done" -- having written this very self-searching examination do you feel some of the issues of your adoption are resolved?"
• "After a particularly one-sided romance with a much older man who gave me a jar of Dijon mustard for my twenty-third birthday, and the period of celibacy and self-searching that ensued, by my twenty-fifth birthday I was ready to be in a relationship again."
• "In our self-searching afterward -- for a moment -- we see more clearly than usual the unenforceable rules of decency and civility our communities live by."