Meanings
comparative more selfsecure · superlative most selfsecure · alternative self-secure
- Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.
1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values - Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.
2008, Touré F. Reed, Not Alms But Opportunity
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Germanselbstsicher“selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident”
- Englishselfsecure
From self- + secure, probably a calque of German selbstsicher (“selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident”). Compare also Dutch zelfzeker, zelfverzekerd (“selfsecure, confident”).
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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