SELF-LOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-love mean? 

• SELF-LOVE (noun)
  The noun SELF-LOVE has 2 senses:

1. feelings of excessive pride

2. an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself

  Familiarity information: SELF-LOVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-LOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feelings of excessive pride

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

amour propre; conceit; self-love; vanity

Hypernyms ("self-love" is a kind of...):

pride; pridefulness (a feeling of self-respect and personal worth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

narcism; narcissism; self-love

Context example:

self-love that shut out everyone else

Hypernyms ("self-love" is a kind of...):

conceit; conceitedness; vanity (the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride)

 Context examples 

You are afraid—your self-love dreads a blunder.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)