self-containedness
- a word derived from self-contained.
Example Sentences
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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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Whitehead, Alfred North
