self-adjustment
Americannoun
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adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
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the process of resolving one's problems or reactions to stress without outside intervention.
Etymology
Origin of self-adjustment
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"Avoidance," or the practice of a person trying to never encounter reminders of things at all, deprives individuals of important chances for self-adjustment.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023
Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable.
From Time Magazine Archive
People no longer think about self-constraint, and self-adjustment, and of keeping up their dignity under all circumstances, and of subjecting the weaknesses of human nature to the exigencies of rank.
From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John
The hereditary influence must completely overshadow the apparent normal self-adjustment of pigment to energy-absorbing needs, in all such cases.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
The repose of self-adjustment like that to which our whole solar system is slowly tending as its death,—this to him appears, though from no scientific deduction, the end of all existence.
From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival
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