self-respect

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: self-re=spect

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-respect, n. 

 Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-respect, n. respect for oneself, a feeling that one is behaving with honour, dignity, etc.

Derivative

self-respecting adj.

THESAURUS

self-respect

amour propre, amour-propre, arrogance, autoeroticism, boastfulness, complacency, conceit, consequentiality, dignity, ego trip, face, haughtiness, honor, independence, integrity, morale, narcism, narcissism, overproudness, overweening pride, pardonable pride, pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-content, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-regard, self-reliance, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smugness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

ROGET THESAURUS

self-respect

Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.