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self-love [ self -luhv ] SHOW IPA
/ ËsÉlfËlÊv / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun
the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
conceit; vanity.
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Origin of self-love First recorded in 1555â65
OTHER WORDS FROM self-love self-loving, adjective
Words nearby self-love self-limiting ,
self-liquidating ,
self-loader ,
self-loading ,
self-loathing ,
self-love ,
self-made ,
self-mailer ,
self-mastery ,
self-mate ,
self-medication
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Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?
âI love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,â he said in a statement.
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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British Dictionary definitions for self-love
noun
the instinct or tendency to seek one's own well-being or to further one's own interest
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