- self-absorbed (adj.)[self-absorbed 词源字典]
- 1796, from self- + absorbed (see absorb).[self-absorbed etymology, self-absorbed origin, 英语词源]
- self-abuse (n.)
- c. 1600, "self-deception," from self- + abuse (n.). As a synonym for "masturbation," it is recorded from 1728; an earlier term was self-pollution (1620s).
- self-actualization (n.)
- 1939, from self- + actualization. Popularized, though not coined, by U.S. psychologist and philosopher Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970).
- self-aggrandizing (adj.)
- 1798, from self- + aggrandizing (see aggrandize).
- self-appointed (adj.)
- 1750, from self- + appointed.
- self-assertive (adj.)
- 1853, from self- + assertive. Related: Self-assertively; self-assertiveness.
- self-assurance (n.)
- 1590s, from self- + assurance.
- self-assured (adj.)
- 1711, from self- + assured.
- self-aware (adj.)
- 1892, from self- + aware.
- self-awareness (n.)
- 1876, from self- + awareness.
- self-centered (adj.)
- 1670s, "fixed, stationary," from self- + center (v.). In reference to persons, "engrossed in the self, with little regard for others," it is recorded from 1783.
- self-complacency (n.)
- 1680s, from self- + complacency.
- self-complacent (adj.)
- 1760, back-formation from self-complacency or else from self- + complacent. Related: Self-complacently.
- self-concept (n.)
- also self concept, 1921, from self- + concept.
- self-confidence (n.)
- also self confidence, 1650s, from self- + confidence.
- self-confident (adj.)
- 1610s, from self- + confident. Related: self-confidently.
- self-congratulation (n.)
- 1630s, from self- + congratulation.
- self-conscious (adj.)
- 1680s, "aware of one's action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.
- self-contained (adj.)
- 1590s, from self- + contained (see contain).
- self-control (n.)
- 1711, from self- + control (n.). Coined by English moral philosopher Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury (1671-1713).