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
An embryo, when cut in half, displays remarkable powers of self-adjustment and continued development.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick
This permits it freely to turn on its axis, and, in connection with the adjustable boxes in the connecting-rod, allows a perfect self-adjustment to the line of the crank-pin.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston
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 John Durand
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