Self-esteem

Definitions: Self-esteem

Self-esteem

Noun

1. A feeling of pride in yourself.

2. The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect: "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure".

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Self-esteem

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SEI	English	Self-esteem index	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Specialty Definition: Self-esteem

The term self-esteem or self-worth refers to one's self-image at an emotional level; circumventing reason and logic. The term differs from ego in that the ego is a more artificial aspect; one can remain highly egotistical, while underneath have very low self-esteem. The maintenance of a healthy degree of self-esteem is a central task within psychology, where patients often suffer from excess degrees of self-criticism, hampering their ability to function.

Popularised in the 1970s as the cause of the ills of society and of individual humans, and written into Californian law as something to oppose, low self-esteem rapidly became a universal explanation for any personal failing and a staple target for personal development movements, sometimes resulting in narcissistic, over-confident individuals with excessive self-esteem.

Much debate about self-esteem centres on the definition of the term. New Age thought can provide self-serving views of the concept; other views can discount the existence or merely the usefulness of the idea.

Some see low self-esteem as a major predisposing factor for crime; others point out that high self-esteem equates with the risk-taking behaviour of criminals.

Compare hubris, megalomania.

External link:PSY: NYT: Deflating Self-Esteem's Role in Society's Ills

Synonyms within Context: Self-esteem

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vanity	Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Self-esteem

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The fact that I cannot bowl wreaks havoc with my self-esteem too, hey, but who am I to complain? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You don't need self-esteem. (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling) Oh, you mean by undermining their self-esteem until they're too weak to fight back? (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)
Movie/TV Titles	Self-Esteem (1988)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Self-esteem

Domain	Title
Books	Getting Through to Your Kids: Talking to Children About Sex, Drugs and Alcohol, Safety, Violence, Death, Smoking, Self-Esteem, and Other Critical iss (reference) Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem (reference) I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem (reference) 104 Activities That Build: Self-esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-discovery, and Coping Skills (reference) The Facts on Self-Esteem, Psychology and the Recovery Movement (Ankerberg, John, Anker Series.) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Raising Self-Esteem for African-Ameri (reference) Self-Esteem & Peak Performance (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Enhancing Self-Esteem (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Familiar Quotations: Self-esteem

Author	Quotation
Irving Layton	Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
John Milton	Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
William James	Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: Self-esteem

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		People with epilepsy have an increased risk of poor self-esteem, depression, and suicide. (references)
		Genetic testing results can affect self-image, self-esteem, and individual and family identity. (references)
		Risks include misdiagnosis, stigmatization, diminished self-esteem, and potential discrimination. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Spoken Usage: Self-esteem

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	With the wheel came envy, a lowering of our self-esteem, and greed.
Pamela Anderson	The only person you want to be admired by really is the person that you're in love with. I mean, you want admiration from other people, but, you know, it is so important and so destructive when you lose your self-esteem.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Self-esteem

"Self-esteem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.74% of the time. "Self-esteem" is used about 221 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Self-esteem

Language		Translations for "self-esteem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		自尊. (various references)

Finnish		itsetunto. (various references)

French		indice de l'estime de soi (self-esteem index). (various references)

Greek		αυτοεκτίμηση (self esteem, self-worth). (various references)

Hungarian		önbecsülés (amour propre, self esteem, self respect, self-regard, self-respect), önérzet (pride, self esteem, self-respect). (various references)

Indonesian		rasa harga diri. (various references)

Korean		자부심 (Self-conceit). (various references)

Manx		ammys er hene. (various references)

Norwegian		selvtillit (self-confidence, self-reliance). (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-esteemsay

Russian		самоуважение (self esteem, self respect, self-respect). (various references)

Vietnamese		lòng tự trọng sự tự đánh giá cao. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Self-esteem

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-f-l-m-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: feetless.
	-3 letters: esteems, feeless, mestees, teleses.
	-4 letters: emeses, esteem, fleets, lessee, melees, mestee, sleets, smelts, steels, steles, tmeses.
	-5 letters: feels, felts, femes, fesse, fetes, flees, fleet, leets, lefts, meets, melee, melts, metes, seels, seems, selfs, semes, sleet, smelt, steel, stele, stems, teels, teems, teles.
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Alternative Orthography: Self-esteem

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 65 73 74 65 65 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0065 0073 0074 0065 0065 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.74%	216	20,583
Adjective (general or positive)	1.36%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	0.9%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	221	N/A

Self-esteem

Definitions: Self-esteem

Self-esteem

Noun

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Self-esteem

Specialty Definition: Self-esteem

Synonyms: Self-esteem

Synonyms within Context: Self-esteem

Vanity

Crosswords: Self-esteem

Modern Usage: Self-esteem

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Self-esteem

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Familiar Quotations: Self-esteem

Irving Layton

John Milton

William James

Non-Fiction Usage: Self-esteem

Health

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Self-esteem

Dennis Miller

Pamela Anderson

Usage Frequency: Self-esteem

Modern Translations: Self-esteem

Chinese

Finnish

French

Greek

Hungarian

Indonesian

Korean

Manx

Norwegian

Pig Latin

Russian

Vietnamese

Anagrams: Self-esteem

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Self-esteem

53 65 6C 66 2D 65 73 74 65 65 6D

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