as in restraint
the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
she had remarkable self-mastery for one so young
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Recent Examples of self-mastery
Just in time for the taskmaster planet (Capricorn’s celestial ruler) to stand on business, Saturn will station retrograde in Aries on July 13, challenging our sense of authority while testing our commitment to themes surrounding autonomy and self-mastery.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
The Ed Mylett Show Ed Mylett interviews leaders, athletes and innovators about peak performance, mindset and the art of self-mastery.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
These being an in-depth understanding of ADHD, self-acceptance, acceptance of disability, self-compassion, and skills and compensatory strategies that support self-mastery.
—New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2024
Those who mastered these high summits did so by first achieving self-mastery, reaching through prayer and meditation a higher realm of almost superhuman awareness and power.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
Set intentions for self-mastery under today’s Capricorn new moon.
—USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
Another camp — call it the dissident center — has produced swaggering figures like Joe Rogan, whose version of masculinity revolves around transgressive speech and macho self-mastery through martial arts.
—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
The Ed Mylett Show Ed Mylett interviews leaders, athletes and innovators about peak performance, mindset and the art of self-mastery.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
These being an in-depth understanding of ADHD, self-acceptance, acceptance of disability, self-compassion, and skills and compensatory strategies that support self-mastery.
—New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2024
Those who mastered these high summits did so by first achieving self-mastery, reaching through prayer and meditation a higher realm of almost superhuman awareness and power.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
Set intentions for self-mastery under today’s Capricorn new moon.
—USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
Another camp — call it the dissident center — has produced swaggering figures like Joe Rogan, whose version of masculinity revolves around transgressive speech and macho self-mastery through martial arts.
—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-mastery
restraint
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On multiple occasions, Johnson has pointed the blame at those who flee police and credited officers with showing restraint in pursuits.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Those charges include four counts each of counterfeiting−delivery/possession of property and knowingly selling counterfeit, nonfunctional or noncompliant supplemental restraint systems.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Self-mastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-mastery. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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