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Definition: Self-assertion |
Self-assertionNoun1. The act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others. 2. The act of asserting yourself in an aggressive manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-assertion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
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| "Self-assertion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-assertion" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-assertion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbrojtje e të drejtave të vetveta. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самоизтъкване (egotism, reclame), отстояване на собствените права, налагане на собствената воля. (various references) | |
Chinese | 自作主 . (various references) | |
Czech | prosazování sam sebe. (various references) | |
Finnish | topakkuus, itsetietoisuus, itsetehostus. (various references) | |
Greek | αυτοπροβολή, αυτοπεποίθηση (confidence, self confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-reliance), αυθαιρεσία (arbitrariness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | magabiztosság (assertiveness, cock-sureness, confidence, nerve, panache, self-assurance, self-confidence), tolakodás (assertiveness, crush, importunity, indiscretion, intrusion, jostling, obtrusion), öntudatos fellépés. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自己主張 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じ"しゅちょう. (various references) | |
Manx | kionyssaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-assertionsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | confiança em si mesmo (self-assurance, self-reliance), arrogância (arrogance, arrogation, assumingness, assurance, audacity, bigness, loftiness, morgue, presumption, pride, swank), afirmação de si mesmo. (various references) | |
Romanian | afirmare a propriei sale persoane. (various references) | |
Russian | отстаивание своих прав. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | samozalaganje. (various references) | |
Spanish | presunción (assumption, conceit, conjecture, pomposity, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, priggishness, self-importance, smugness), agresividad (aggressiveness, aggro, belligerence, belligerency, thrustfulness, truculence). (various references) | |
Swedish | självhävdelse. (various references) | |
Thai | การยืนยันในความคิ"ตน (self-asserting, self-assertiveness). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendini zorla kabul ettirme, kendini birşey sanma (self-importance, stuffiness), kendinden fazla emin olma, ısrarcılık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовпевненість (aplomb, arrogance, assuming, assumption, assuredness, confidence, outrecuidance, overconfidence, presumption, self confidence, self sufficiency), наполегливе відстоювання своїх прав. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tự khẳng định. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "self-assertion" (pronounced 'Self`-as*ser"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: frailnesses, loftinesses, neorealists. | |
-3 letters: artinesses, assertions, essentials, fairnesses, firestones, flatnesses, frostiness, neorealist, reasonless, reflations, reinflates, stoneflies, strifeless. | |
-4 letters: aerolites, alertness, arsenites, arsonists, assenters, assentors, assertion, earliness, earstones, elaterins, enlisters, entailers, entresols, essential, essonites, falseness, farnesols, farnesses, fasteners, fatnesses, felonries, felstones, fenestral, firestone, fitnesses, flaneries, flatirons, flossiest, foresails, forestial, frailness, frontless, infesters, inflaters, inflators. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: profitablenesses. | |
+4 letters: flirtatiousnesses. | |
+5 letters: multifariousnesses, unprofitablenesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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