self-preservation
preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
Origin of self-preservation
1Other words from self-preservation
- self-pre·serv·ing, adjective
Words Nearby self-preservation
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How to use self-preservation in a sentence
The cynical will note that fundamentalist charismatics do have some sense of self-preservation.
One motivation for Republicans might be self-preservation alone.
Traditionally, people who make their living giving and taking punches have not paid much heed to the law of self-preservation.
Boxers, Be Brave and Quit Before Your Brain Turns to Mush | Gordon Marino | October 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCould Jagger and the Stones pull off a similar feat of reinvention and self-preservation?
But I can't picture Bush or Obama telling such a lie for pure self-preservation reasons.
Like a hurt animal, half crawling, knowing only the base instinct of self preservation, he tried for that delivery alleyway.
Self-interest and self-preservation dictated many laws which secured the welfare of society.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordThey are made from the instinct of self-preservation, from patriotic aspirations, from the necessities of civilization.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordBut Brodrick's family, by the sheer instinct of self-preservation, was awake to everything that concerned it.
The Creators | May SinclairShe was still an unknown and uncharted land to him, to which at times the instinct of self-preservation blindly inclined him.
The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for self-preservation
the preservation of oneself from danger or injury, esp as a basic instinct
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