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Self control is defined as the ability to manage your actions, feelings and emotions.

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An example of self control is when you want the last cookie but you use your willpower to avoid eating it because you know it isn't good for you.

See self-control in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

control of oneself, or of one's own emotions, desires, actions, etc.

See self-control in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Control of one's emotions, desires, or actions by one's own will: “You think yourself a miracle of sensibility; but self-control is what you need” (Mary Boykin Chesnut).

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selfˌ-con·trolledˈ adjective

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