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self-containedness

  • a word derived from self-contained.
    self-contained
    adjective
    containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.

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New York magazine described him as "notoriously disciplined" and "dedicated to a self-control and self-containedness that can come off as coolness".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

I have often been struck by the self-containedness of the family lives of most of the Americans I have met.

From Time Magazine Archive

His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-containedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach, to him.

From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward

I will also express this self-containedness of nature by saying that nature is closed to mind.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead