Definitions for self-love

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Spelling: [self-luhv]
IPA: /ˈsɛlfˈlʌv/

Self-Love is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in self-love (-eefllosv).

Definitions for self-love

noun

  1. the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
  2. conceit; vanity.
  3. narcissism (def 2).

Origin of self-love

First recorded in 1555-65

Examples for self-love

A huge part of self-love is being able to stand up for yourself when you are feeling taken advantage of.

He had to be awakened to the light of self-love and strong thinking freed from the influence of white folks.

Well, to tell the truth, I was not, and the truth is better than self-love.

How full of self-love are the self-righteous, and how void of the love of God!

It is self-love inflamed to the acute point; conceit, with a hair-trigger.

You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body.

And the only answer was one still more wounding to his self-love.

There are three subjective principles of morals,—sympathy, benevolence, self-love.

For women, the love that dares not speak its name is self-love.

It was self-love, but self-love ennobled by generous wishes and high ambitions.

Word Value for self-love
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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