Synonyms and Antonyms of self-restraint
1
the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
- she demonstrated an almost unnatural self-restraint during the fight
continence, restraint, self-command, self-containment, self-control, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, will, willpower
self-abnegation, self-denial
moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness
determination, nerve
command, control, discipline, mastery
abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance
abstinence, soberness, sobriety
aplomb, assurance, composure, confidence, coolness, equanimity, poise, self-confidence
discretion
gratification, indulgence, self-indulgence
excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness, overindulgence
demerit, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, frailty, shortcoming, vice, weakness
indiscipline, unconstraint, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint
2
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
- we must practice self-restraint even with people who are deliberately rude
constraint, continence, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, reserve, restraint, self-command, self-control, suppression
command, control, mastery, possession
self-censorship, self-containment, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, will, willpower
composure, self-poise, self-possession
aloofness, detachedness, distance
bashfulness, modesty, shyness
reticence, silence, taciturnity
