self-control

See also: self control

English

Alternative forms

• self control, selfcontrol

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English control

English self-control

From self- + control.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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^[1]:

     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 Greek: 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
• Marathi: संयम (mr) m (saiyam), आत्मनियंत्रण (mr) m (ātmaniyantraṇ), दम (mr) m (dam)
• 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

  Latin: 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