self-assertiveness

self-as·ser·tion

(sĕlf′ə-sûr′shən)
n.
Determined advancement of one's own personality, wishes, or views.

self′-as·ser′tive adj.
self′-as·ser′tive·ly adv.
self-as·ser′tive·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.self-assertiveness - aggressive self-assuranceself-assertiveness - aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions
positiveness, positivism, positivity - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness, pushiness - offensive boldness and assertiveness
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self-assertiveness

[ˌselfəˈsɜːtɪvnɪs] Nasertividad f
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"I am a little puzzled," he admitted, "as to this - shall I not call it self-assertiveness? - on the part of my good friend Souspennier."
She was so easygoing; had none of the push and self-assertiveness that get people ahead in business.
Before it was over most of the dramatists had taken sides against Jonson, whose arrogant and violent self-assertiveness put him at odds, sooner or later, with nearly every one with whom he had much to do.
From the nursing education perspective, adding sessions on therapeutic communication skills with patients is required when planning a SIM-PBL education module in order to provide an effective way of achieving the reduction of communication apprehension and the improvement of self-assertiveness.
Effects of sexual self-assertiveness and sexual self-esteem on sexual self-disclosure among heterosexual adolescents in Nigeria.
I just do.) Here I found seven pages dense with helpful information, contextualised in the auto-immune disease category and clearly organised into such categories as processes, i.e., an overview of the effect of the condition on the sufferer's body ("what is it"?), symptoms, aetiology ("what causes it"?), diet, ingestive remedies and other naturopathic approaches to supplement them, ranging across compresses and poultices, acupuncture, exercise, becoming pregnant (not for everyone, sadly), restoring psychological balance through self-assertiveness, homoeopathy and aromatherapy.
Their victories in international competitions have raised their people's sense of national identity, collective pride, and self-assertiveness.
However, it was the ideas and work of Marcus Garvey that decisively fired the imagination of people of African descent throughout the world for freedom, emancipation and self-assertiveness. Garvey.
This first volume in a three-part series focuses on individuals, namely their body image; voice problems, enuresis, and insomnia; headaches, unconscious conversation, and self-assertiveness; the unconscious insight and the use of analogies; alcohol and giving directives; inhibited Ann; classifying a person and starting therapy; failure and what is essential for change; some psychotic problems; ordeals, substituting symptoms, and puzzles; passing examinations; brief intervention into a performance problem; and verbatim interviews with a depressed man and a patient with phantom limb pain.
Tokyo says the US military presence in the strategic island is key for maintaining security at a time of increasing self-assertiveness from China and an unpredictable North Korea.
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