self-love

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self-love (s

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The instinct or desire to promote one's own well-being; regard for or love of one's self.

self-loving adj.

self-love

the instinct or tendency to seek one's own well-being or to further one's own interest

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Noun	1.	self-love - feelings of excessive pride amour propre, conceit, vanity pride, pridefulness - a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
	2.	self-love - an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself; "self-love that shut out everyone else" narcism, narcissism conceitedness, vanity, conceit - the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

Translations

self-love [ˌselfˈlʌv] N → egoísmo m, narcisismo m

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agglomeration Amour propre autophilia conceit conceitedness egotism egotistic egotistical love narcism narcissism narcissistic narcissistic personality personality philauty Pride pridefulness self Self-charity			The twins threw themselves into it with their whole heart, for their self-love was engaged. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context It is not self-love that prompts me to speak of my own comforting, but my friendship and love for you, which will never fade from my heart. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context You must make her easy in a seaway, you must never forget that you owe her the fullest share of your thought, of your skill, of your self-love. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context			self-inductance self-induction self-indulgence self-indulgent self-indulgently self-inflicted self-instructed self-insurance self-interest self-interested Self-involution self-involved self-justification Self-justifier self-justifying Self-kindled Self-knowing self-knowledge Self-life self-limited self-limiting self-liquidating self-loader self-loading self-locking self-love self-loving Self-luminous self-made self-made man self-mailer self-management self-mastery self-medication Self-mettle self-mockery self-mortification Self-motion self-motivated Self-moved Self-moving Self-murder Self-murderer self-mutilation self-neglect Self-neglecting self-observation Self-one self-opinion self-opinionated Self-opinioned			self-limited disease self-limited disease self-limiting self-limiting self-liquidating self-liquidating Self-Liquidating Bond Self-Liquidating Bond Self-Liquidating Bonds Self-liquidating loan Self-Liquidating Loans self-liquidation Self-Load/Offload Trailer self-loader self-loader self-loaders self-loaders self-loading self-loading Self-loading cargo Self-loading cargo Self-loading cargo Self-Loading Container and Ribbon Bridge Transporter Self-Loading Experimental Model Self-Loading Tape Self-loathing self-locking self-locking self-locking nut self-locking screw self-love self-loving self-loving Self-luminous self-made Self-Made Critic Self-Made Man self-magnifying self-mailer self-mailing Self-Maintenance Period Self-Managed Action Learning Self-Managed Clustering Self-Managed Work Group Self-Managed Work Team Self-management Self-Management And Recovery Training self-management approach Self-management socialism Self-management socialism Self-management socialism Self-management socialism self-managing Self-Managing Computer System Self-Managing Distributed System Self-Masked Dry Etching self-mastery self-mastery Self-Measured Plasma Glucose Self-Measurement for the Assessment of the Response to Trandolapril

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