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Definition of Self-assertion

1. Noun. The act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others.

2. Noun. The act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner.

Definition of Self-assertion

1. Noun. The aggressive advancement of one's own opinions or wishes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-assertion

self-addressed self-adjoint self-adjointness self-advancement self-aggrandising self-aggrandizement self-aggrandizing self-analysis self-annihilation self-appointed

self-authenticating self-aware self-awareness self-belief self-billing self-blood self-build self-built self-care units self-censorship

Literary usage of Self-assertion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Law as a Means to an End by Rudolf von Jhering (1914)
"Physical self-assertion. Egoistical self-assertion has for its basis the thought of egoism, ... Of the three directions or kinds of self-assertion which we ..."

2. Law as a Means to an End by Rudolf von Jhering (1914)
"The assertion of this position granted him by the law we call the juristic self-assertion of the person. This self-assertion extends to everything that the ..."

3. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"Thus in practice the two conceptions of self- denial in one region and self-assertion in another mutually support each other. They give occasion for the ..."

4. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"The word " self-assertion ", which has been used more or less throughout the book as a name for the native tendency to resist, persist, master, dominate, ..."

5. The Rural Mind and Social Welfare by Ernest Rutherford Groves (1922)
"The group is present as the field of self-assertion, for obviously one cannot assert ... The instinct of self-assertion expresses itself in varied forms. ..."

6. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"Thus in practice the two conceptions of self- denial in one region and self-assertion in another mutually support each other. They give occasion for the ..."

7. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"Thus in practice the two conceptions of self- denial in one region and self-assertion in another mutually support each other. They give occasion for the ..."

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