self-restraint
self-restraint noun: self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
Noun
self-restraint (uncountable)
- Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
- His lack of self-restraint led to several ugly scenes of debauchery and violent outburst.
- Sovereigntism means a country doing what it wants to do within only the limits of what it can do. It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint.2025 February 4, Bret Stephens, “Is This the End of Pax Americana?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2025
- Synonyms:
- temperance
self-restraint meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
self-restraint in Hindi
- self-restraint
- आत्मनियंत्रण ātmaniyantraṇ
self-restraint in Tamil
- தன்னடக்கம், தற்புலனடக்கம்
self-restraint in Marathi
- self-restraint
- संयम saiyam, आत्मनियंत्रण ātmaniyantraṇ, दम dam
self-restraint in Urdu
- self-restraint
- دم dam
More languagesFewer languages
- self-restraint in Malayalam
- ആത്മനിയന്ത്രണം, അടക്കം, ദമം, മനോനിയന്ത്രണം
- self-restraint in Kannada
- ಆತ್ಮಸಂಯಮ, ಆತ್ಮನಿಗ್ರಹ, ತನ್ತಡೆತ
- self-restraint in Sanskrit
- दम dáma
Synonyms of self-restraint
Origin of self-restraint
From self- + restraint.
Questions about self-restraint
- What does self-restraint mean?
- Self-restraint means self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
- What is self-restraint in Hindi?
- Self-restraint in Hindi is आत्मनियंत्रण (ātmaniyantraṇ). See Self-restraint meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is self-restraint?
- Self-restraint is a noun.
Words near self-restraint in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-restraint (page history and authors); self-restraint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دم (Urdu) (page history and authors); self-restraint (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-restraint (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दम (Sanskrit) (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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