self-adjustment
Americannoun
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adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
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the process of resolving one's problems or reactions to stress without outside intervention.
Etymology
Origin of self-adjustment
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"Avoidance," or the practice of a person trying to never encounter reminders of things at all, deprives individuals of important chances for self-adjustment.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023
Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sighed the sigh of perfect self-adjustment, sign of a mind agreeably filled, and stretching out his legs picked up a volume of Bourget.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
They are afraid of a House of chartered liberties, whereas they would find the best security for stable and ordered progress in the self-adjustment of an assembly which would be a nation in miniature.
From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by John H. Humphreys
But this difference consists in something beyond the reach of chemistry and of physics; it is active intelligence, the power of self-direction, of self-adjustment, of self-maintenance, of adapting means to an end.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
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