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1
a reasonable or justifiable sense of one's worth or importance
- friends and family have tried to help the shy child develop some self-esteem
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2
an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements
- his towering self-esteem made praise from other people entirely unnecessary
Synonyms for self-esteem
- amour propre,
- bighead,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- ego,
- egotism,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- self-admiration,
- self-assumption,
- self-conceit,
- self-congratulation,
- self-glory,
- self-importance,
- self-love,
- self-opinion,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- swelled head,
- swellheadedness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
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3
great faith in oneself or one's abilities
- the kind of self-esteem that a struggling actor needs to keep going in the face of constant discouragement and rejection
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- cockiness,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- ego,
- egoism,
- egotism,
- hubris,
- overconfidence,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- self-admiration,
- self-applause,
- self-assumption,
- self-complacency,
- self-conceit,
- self-consequence,
- self-content,
- self-contentment,
- self-glorification,
- self-importance,
- self-opinion,
- self-partiality,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vanity
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“Self-esteem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-esteem. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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