Self-esteem
Self Esteem (song)
self-esteem
Noun
1. a feeling of pride in yourself
(synonym) self-pride
(hypernym) pride, pridefulness
2. the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"
(synonym) dignity, self-respect, self-regard
(hypernym) pride
Self-esteem
(n.)
The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Self-esteem
one's feelings of high or low self-worth (behaviour).
self-esteem
Synonyms and related words:
acquisitiveness, amour propre, amour-propre, arrogance, autism, autoeroticism, boastfulness, careerism, clear, complacency, conceit, consequentiality, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face, graspingness, greed, haughtiness, independence, individualism, interest, manifest, narcism, narcissism, obvious, overproudness, overweening pride, pardonable pride, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, plain, possessiveness, pride, pridefulness, prima facie, privatism, proudness, purse-pride, remoteness, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-approbation, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-consideration, self-containment, self-content, self-delight, self-devotion, self-endearment, self-evident, self-glorification, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-indulgence, self-infatuation, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-love, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-regard, self-reliance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-worship, selfishness, selfism, smugness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, unmistakable, unquestionable, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.