Definition of Self-hatred

1. Noun. Shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions.

Exact synonyms: Self-disgust
Generic synonyms: Shame

Definition of Self-hatred

1. Noun. Hatred of oneself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-hatred

self-flagellation
self-flattery
self-forgetful
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification
self-harm
self-harmer
self-hating
self-hatred (current term)
self-help
self-help devices
self-help groups
self-hypnosis
self-image
self-images
self-immolate
self-immolation
self-immolations
self-importance
self-important
self-imposed
self-improvement

Literary usage of Self-hatred

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

1. Psychology, Or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropology, Adapted by Friedrich August Rauch (1853)
"self-hatred. By hatred in general, we understand here a constant dislike ... self-hatred seems wholly unnatural, and the question is, What is its origin ? ..."

2. Psychology; Or, a View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropology, Being the by Frederick August Rauch (1840)
"Self-love seems to be the principle of self-hatred, and this certainly is no better ... The object of self-hatred is man himself, yet not the whole of man, ..."

3. Screamfree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool by Hal Edward Runkel (2005)
"He asked himself and others, "Are they really saying 'self-hatred?'" He says he had never, in his vast experience in Eastern philosophy and politics, ..."

4. Development of Personality: A Phase of the Philosophy of Education by John Chrysostom (1916)
"This practice of salutary self-abnegation and charitable self-hatred is, in part, ... It is necessary, therefore, that self-abnegation and self-hatred be ..."

5. The Foundations of personality by Abraham Myerson (1921)
"and an obsession that such pleasure is debasing; and a feeling of self-disgust and self-hatred results that is the more tragic since it is useless. ..."

6. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1918)
"The smoldering self-hatred may reach such bounds that the individual may mutilate ... We see this self-hatred mechanism most highly specialized in the ..."

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