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self-care

[self-kair]

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noun

care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.

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Examples from the Web for self-care

When men cease to rob women of their earnings they will find them generally, as thousands now are, capable of self-care.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)|Various
With sadness let us confess that our age is sinning grievously against this principle of self-care and self-love.
A Man's Value to Society|Newell Dwight Hillis
There was growing within his breast a self-care and a self-reliance.
William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke
For what are self-control and self-care, but the just fruits of intelligence?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865|Various

She had never learned the ABC of woman's wisdom, the steady cult of self-care, self-beautifying, self-refining.
The Brimming Cup|Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Medicine definitions for self-care

self-care

n.

The care of oneself without medical, professional, or other assistance or oversight.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.