self-control

See also: self control

English

Alternative forms

• self control, selfcontrol

Etymology

From self- +‎ control.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹoʊl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹəʊl/

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• Hyphenation: self-control

Noun

self-control (usually uncountable, plural self-controls)

1. The ability to control one's desires and impulses.

   Synonyms: self-command, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-regulation

   Antonym: undisciplinedness

   Hyponym: self-restraint

   Coordinate terms: self-awareness, self-criticism

   Near-synonym: willpower

   • 2015 July 31, Liza Lucas, “How to beat smoking, other bad habits with better self-control”, in CNN‎:

     A review of addiction research, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, suggests mindful meditation strengthens self-control in smokers, even among those smokers who haven’t set an intention to quit.

Translations

ability to control one's desires and impulses

Afrikaans: selfbeheersing Azerbaijani: özünüidarəetmə Bulgarian: самооблада́ние (bg) n (samoobladánie) Catalan: autocontrol (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 自我控制 (zìwǒ kòngzhì), 自制力 (zh) (zìzhìlì), 自我克制 (zìwǒ kèzhì), 自制 (zh) (zìzhì), 自控力 (zìkònglì) Czech: sebeovládání n Danish: selvkontrol c Dutch: zelfcontrole (nl) m or f Esperanto: memregado Finnish: itsehillintä (fi) French: contrôle de soi m, maîtrise de soi (fr) f Georgian: თავშეკავება (tavšeḳaveba), თვითკონტროლი (tvitḳonṭroli) German: Selbstbeherrschung (de) f, Selbstkontrolle (de) f Greek: αυτοέλεγχος (el) m (aftoélenchos) Ancient: ἐγκράτεια f (enkráteia), σωφροσύνη f (sōphrosúnē) Hungarian: önfegyelem (hu), önuralom (hu) Interlingua: autocontrolo Japanese: 自制 (ja) (じせい, jisei), 自粛 (ja) (じしゅく, jishuku), セルフコントロール (serufukontorōru) Kazakh: өзін-өзі бақылау (özın-özı baqylau) Korean: 자제 (ko) (jaje) Latin: temperantia f Lithuanian: savitvarda f Norwegian: selvkontroll m Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: samokontrola (pl) f, autokontrola (pl) f (literary) Portuguese: autocontrole (pt) m Romanian: autocontrol (ro) n, stăpânire de sine f Russian: самооблада́ние (ru) n (samoobladánije), самоконтро́ль (ru) m (samokontrólʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: самоконтрола f, самоконрола f, самосавлађивање n Roman: samokontrola (sh) f, samokonrola f, samosavlađivanje n Sotho: boitshwaro Spanish: autocontrol (es) m, autodominio m Swedish: självbehärskning (sv) c, självkontroll (sv) c Thai: การควบคุมตนเอง (th) Ukrainian: самовлада́ння n (samovladánnja), самоконтро́ль m (samokontrólʹ) Vietnamese: sự tự chủ (vi)

Verb

self-control (third-person singular simple present self-controls, present participle self-controlling, simple past and past participle self-controlled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To control oneself or itself.

See also

• count to ten