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selfsecure

selfsecure adjective: secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.

Adjective

selfsecure (comparative more selfsecure, superlative most selfsecure)

  1. Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
    • Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values
  2. Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
    • Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.2008, Touré F. Reed, Not Alms But Opportunity

Forms of selfsecure

comparativemore selfsecure
superlativemost selfsecure
alternative formself-secure

Origin of selfsecure

From self- + secure, probably a calque of German selbstsicher (“selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident”). Compare also Dutch zelfzeker, zelfverzekerd (“selfsecure, confident”).

Questions about selfsecure

What does selfsecure mean?
Selfsecure means secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
What part of speech is selfsecure?
Selfsecure is an adjective.

Words near selfsecure in the dictionary

  1. selfs
  2. selfsabotage
  3. selfsame
  4. selfsameness
  5. selfsames
  6. selfsecure
  7. selfserving
  8. selfship
  9. selfshipped
  10. selfshipper
  11. selfshippers

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