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self-com·mun·ing | \ ˌself-kə-ˈmyü-niŋ 
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\ plural self-communings
Definition of self-communing
: the act or an instance of communicating intimately with oneself : communion with oneself
But for the most part, the characters are engaged in a sort of self-communing, a struggle to come to terms with conflicts and contradictions they sense within themselves.— Barry Unsworth And while [Yo-Yo] Ma produced undeniably beautiful playing in the final movement, the leisurely lingering and self-communing barely skirted self-indulgence.— Lawrence Johnson It was only after self-communings in the Arizona desert and deciding to write purely what interested him that he became truly himself and acquired a genuine following.— Paul Driver
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The first known use of self-communing was in 1665
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