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self-assertion Definition

self·-assertion (-ə sʉr′s̸hən)

noun

the act of demanding recognition for oneself or of insisting upon one's rights, claims, etc.

self-assertion Related Forms
self′·-asser′tive adjective or self′·-assert′ing
self-assertion Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • national: We seem to be watching as, with the utmost complacency, the Czechs abandon the fruits of 150 years of national self-assertion.
  • ethnographic: This is music and fashion as a mode of ethnographic self-assertion: a means of asserting one's own distinctiveness.
  • mere: The self posits itself, and by virtue of this mere self-assertion it exists.
self-assertion Quotes

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

—Kurosawa, Akira