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
He sighed the sigh of perfect self-adjustment, sign of a mind agreeably filled, and stretching out his legs picked up a volume of Bourget.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
But Gabriel could not imitate this comfortable self-adjustment to surroundings.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
No doubt, such perfect poise -- such intuitive self-adjustment -- was not maintained by nature without a sacrifice of the qualities which would have upset it.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
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