Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Self-sufficiency (2)
n
The state of personal self-sufficiency.
n
A self-taught person.
n
(uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
n
existence as an individual; selfness
adj
Focused or centered within itself, and not on something external.
adj
Concerned with or directed toward others; selfless.
n
(psychology) A consequence, such as food or water, that fulfills a primary, unlearned drive, such as hunger or thirst, and thereby reinforces a behavior without dependence on prior learning.
n
Identity or personality.
adj
Acting of or by itself.
adj
Aware of oneself as an individual that exists in the real world.
adj
Aware of oneself as an individual being.
adj
Exhibiting self-consistency; consistent with oneself or itself, or with one's principles.
adj
Marked by self-determination.
v
To govern autonomously, without the overseeing of another governing body.
adj
Knowing of itself, or without the communication from another.
adj
Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
adj
Valuing one's own opinion highly.
n
The bust of an artist by the artist him/herself; a portrait of the painter who painted it.
adj
Produced by itself or oneself.
adj
Regulated by oneself or itself.
adj
Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
adj
Characterized by self-support.
adj
Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
adj
Forming one's own opinions; having independent judgment.
adj
Alternative spelling of self-assured [confident in one's own abilities]
adj
Alternative spelling of self-conscious [Aware of oneself as an individual being.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of self [Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.]
n
The fully developed self; one's personality, character.
adj
Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.
adv
In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
adj
Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
adj
(philosophy) Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.

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