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Definitions: Self-love |
Self-loveNoun1. Feelings of excessive pride. 2. An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-love" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-loveSynonyms: amour propre (n), conceit (n), narcism (n), narcissism (n), vanity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Noun: selfishness; Adjective: self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre; (vanity); nepotism. |
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. | |
Crosswords: Self-love |
| English words defined with "self-love": narcissistic personality ♦ Philauty ♦ Self-charity, Selfism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "self-love": Self-charity. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Anthony Powell | Self-love seems so often unrequited. |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Our first and last love is... self-love. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. |
| In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. | |
| Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. | |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. |
Lord Chesterfield | Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. |
St. Thomas Aquinas | Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. |
William Shakespeare | Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Self-love" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Self-love" is used about 7 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) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-love"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | egoizëm (ego, egoism, self interest, selfishness, self-regard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | себелюбие (egoism, self interest, selfishness, self-regard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自我怜爱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sebeláska (amour propre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | selbstliebe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλαυτία (individualism, selfishness, vanity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önszeretet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | egocentrismo (egocentrism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | hene-ghraih. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-lovesay narcisismo (narcissism, narcissist), egoísmo (big head, egoist, selfinterest, selfishness). (various references) себялюбие. (various references) féin-spéis (self-conceit). (various references) samoljublje. (various references) narcisismo (ego libido, narcissism), egolatría (egotism, narcissism, self-worship), egoísmo (egoism, self, self interest, selfhood, selfishness, self-seeking). (various references) egenkärlek (self-conceit). (various references) kendine hayranlık (egomania, egotism, narcissism), çıkarını düşünme. (various references) інстинкт самозбереження, себелюбство (selfishness). (various references) tính ích kỷ (egoism, selfishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-l-o-s-v" | |
-1 letter: felloes. | |
-2 letters: felloe, folles, levels. | |
-3 letters: elves, feels, fells, flees, floes, level, losel, loves, selle, solve, voles. | |
-4 letters: eels, ells, else, eves, feel, fees, fell, flee, floe, foes, lees, levo, lose, love, oles, seel, self, sell, sloe, sole, vees, voes, vole. | |
-5 letters: eel, efs, elf, ell, els, eve, fee, foe, lee, lev, oes, ole, ose. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-l-o-s-v" | |
+3 letters: cloverleafs, severalfold. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 6C 6F 76 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - l o v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 006C 006F 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537178721578818871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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