self-limiting

[ self-lim-i-ting ]

adjective

1. limiting oneself or itself:

   a self-limiting authority.

2. (of a disease) self-limited.

Other Words From

• self-limi·tation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-limiting¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The course flies by, full of inspiring tools and NLP techniques for breaking self-limiting patterns of thought and behaviors.

From The Daily Beast

Ron Paul is self-limiting, Newt Gingrich is self-aggrandizing, and Rick Santorum is self-righteous.

From The Daily Beast

I know that the very same self-limiting discussions took place at Okurasho, the Japanese Ministry of Finance circa 1995-1998.

From The Daily Beast

And certainly these seem incompatible with self-love, however cautiously self-limiting.

From Project Gutenberg

They, the millions upon millions of self-limiting ones, were the servants.

From Project Gutenberg

A few, through sheer luck, had been blown into self-limiting bits by duodec.

From Project Gutenberg

Such self-limiting laws prescribed by Divine wisdom and love do not place man beyond Divine control.

From Project Gutenberg

Being a great man (if as democracies seem to think being a great man is a disease) is at least a self-limiting disease.

From Project Gutenberg