self-preservation

Noun

Meaning

The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

self preservation

Synonyms

self-defense recovery confidence self-confidence self-improvement self-assurance self-defence self-protection survival instinct self-care self-healing self-actualization self-belief self caring self-advancement

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Antonyms

self-destruction masochistic self-abuse self-defeating death wish self-torture

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Hypernyms

saving preservation

Examples

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Evelyn Waugh

The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation. J. M. Coetzee

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other. Thomas Jefferson

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the. Winston Churchill

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities. Boris Sidis

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

self-preoccupation self-preoccupied self-presentation self-preservation is the first law of nature self-preservative self-pride