self-assertiveadj.

1849 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 3 662 Assuming as I do that..the earliest words are speeches or self assertive concretes.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 24 Unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name.

1902 Proc. Delaware County Hist. Soc. 1 194/2 We are told now a days, that no man can succeed unless he is self assertive.

1941 C. Headlam Diary 7 July in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) vii. 261 I suppose if I were younger and more self-assertive, this would be the moment for me to come forward.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 May 29 Men with fragile egos have never liked self-assertive women.

1855 Eclectic Rev. Mar. 281 He is a poet in spite of his critical intellect and his self-assertiveness; nor does he need us to tell him so.

1921 E. von Arnim Vera vi. 63 She no longer knew whether it were very awful to be love-making in the middle of death, or whether it were..the natural glorious self-assertiveness of life.

2015 M. Jackson Harmattan i. 9 Six months later, Freya's self-assertiveness was even more noticeable. ‘No, me do it, Daddy,’ was her continual refrain.