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self-assertion noun [mass noun]The confident and forceful expression or promotion of oneself, one’s views, or one’s desires: her self-assertion was born from a confident determination to succeed the occasion became one of national self-assertion...- National culture became a celebration of aggressive self-assertion.
- To do this, she may need to be trained in self-assertion and confidence.
- Their determination to scorn the dictates of the IMF and the World Bank and pursue their own strategies for economic and human development is a manifestation of a powerful wave of national self-assertion.
Derivativesself-asserting adjective ...- I am told that while I was still in long dresses I showed many signs of an eager, self-asserting disposition.
- It is becoming economically, militarily and politically self-asserting.
self-assertive /ˌsɛlfəˈsəːtɪv / adjective ...- When Mercury moves into Leo, you will feel more reckless and self-assertive.
- Being unevolved, they are of the lower nature, instinctive, self-assertive, confused, possessive and protective of their immediate environment.
- Skilled noncompliance represents adaptive autonomy, and has been defined as being self-assertive in a verbally competent, nonaversive manner.
self-assertiveness /ˌsɛlfəˈsəːtɪvnəs / noun ...- All this points to the increasing self-assertiveness of Japan 60 years after it was defeated in World War II.
- In this case elections are used as an instrument of self-assertiveness.
- This book shows us art that asserts the authority, autonomy, self-assertiveness and sheer breathtaking scope of African creativity today.
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