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self-esteem

noun
/ˌsɛlf.əˈstiːm/

Etymology

From self- + esteem.

  1. borrowed from aestimō
  2. borrowed from estimer
  3. prefixed as self-esteem — “self + esteem”

Definitions

  1. Confidence in one's own worth

    Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.

    • People with high self-esteem think they're more popular, charming, and socially skilled than other people, but objective studies find no difference.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-esteem. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA