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self-respect

self-respect noun: the knowledge of one's own worth.

Noun

self-respect (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge of one's own worth.
    • […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
    • In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging[…]an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

self-respect meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

self-respect in Hindi

knowledge of one's own worth
आत्मगौरव ātmagaurav, आत्मसम्मान ātmasammān

self-respect in Tamil

தன்மானம்

self-respect in Malayalam

self-regard, self-esteem, amour proper
ആത്മാഭിമാനം, അഭിമാനം, അന്തസ്സ്, പ്രതാപം, പ്രഭാവം, മഹിമാവ്

self-respect in Kannada

self-respect
ಹೇವ hēva
More languagesFewer languages
self-respect in Punjabi
انکھ aṇakh
self-respect in Vietnamese
lòng tự trọng

Origin of self-respect

From self- + respect.

Questions about self-respect

What does self-respect mean?
Self-respect means the knowledge of one's own worth.
What is self-respect in Hindi?
Self-respect in Hindi is आत्मगौरव (ātmagaurav), आत्मसम्मान (ātmasammān). See Self-respect meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is self-respect?
Self-respect is a noun.

Words near self-respect in the dictionary

  1. self-reproaches
  2. self-repugnant
  3. self-rescuer
  4. self-rescuers
  5. self-resolving
  6. self-respect
  7. self-respecting
  8. self-restrained
  9. self-restraint
  10. self-revelation
  11. self-revelations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-respect (page history and authors); self-respect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-respect (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಹೇವ (Kannada) (page history and authors); انکھ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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