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For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
Stacy Schiff

Meaning of "self-preservation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-PRESERVATION

self-preservation play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-PRESERVATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Preservation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-PRESERVATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-preservation

This article is about the natural instinct of an organism. For the video game based on the TV series, see The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Self-preservation is behavior that ensures the survival of an organism. It is almost universal among living organisms. Pain and fear are parts of this mechanism. Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease. Fear causes the organism to seek safety and may cause a release of adrenaline, which has the effect of increased strength and heightened senses such as hearing, smell, and sight.

Definition of self-preservation in the English dictionary

The definition of self-preservation in the dictionary is the preservation of oneself from danger or injury, esp as a basic instinct.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-PRESERVATION

self-poisoning
self-pollinated
self-pollination
self-portrait
self-possessed
self-possessedly
self-possession
self-praise
self-preoccupied
self-pride
self-proclaimed
self-professed
self-promotion
self-pronouncing
self-propagating
self-propelled
self-propelling
self-propulsion
self-protection
self-protective

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-PRESERVATION

accreditation
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association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of self-preservation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «self-preservation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-PRESERVATION

Find out the translation of self-preservation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-preservation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-preservation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自保
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autoconservación
570 millions of speakers

English

self-preservation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्मरक्षा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحفاظ على الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самосохранение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto-preservação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আত্মরক্ষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

instinct de conservation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemeliharaan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbsterhaltung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己保存
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 보존
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pengawetan dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự gìn giử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய பாதுகாப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची संरक्षण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini koruma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

istinto di conservazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samozachowawczy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самозбереження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de auto- conservare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτοσυντήρηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfbehoud
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självbevarelsedrift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvoppholdelsesdrift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-preservation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PRESERVATION»

The term «self-preservation» is regularly used and occupies the 76.707 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PRESERVATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-preservation

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10 QUOTES WITH «SELF-PRESERVATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-preservation.
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Julian Barnes
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
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Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
3
Ann Coulter
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
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Diogenes
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
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Danielle de Niese
I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
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Noah Feldman
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
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Hoda Kotb
Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.
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Jose Marti
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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Stacy Schiff
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
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Louis Sullivan
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-PRESERVATION»

Discover the use of self-preservation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-preservation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Self-preservation in Simultaneous Interpreting: Surviving ...
This volume is an insightful and refreshing account of interpreters behavior from the other side of the glass-fronted booth."
Claudia Monacelli, 2009
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The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in ...
In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services.
Christopher Hood, 2010
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The Self-conscious Emotions: Theory and Research
5. A. Social. Function. for. Self-Conscious. Emotions. The Social Self Preservation Theory TARA L. GRUENEWALD SALLY S. DICKERSON MARGARET E. KEMENY. M. ost theoretical perspectives concerning emotion experience assert that ...
Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins, June Price Tangney, 2007
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Advances In Turbulence
WILLIAM K. GEORGE University at Buffalo State University of New York Buffalo. New York 14260 INTRODUCTION It is difficult to trace the origins of the ideas of self- preservation and similarity solutions, and their application to fluid mechanics .
William K. George, Roger E. A. Arndt, 1988
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Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge
Thus, the pleasure-pain principle is invalidated, at least as the fundamental motive principle for all life. VI. Self-Preservation as Derivative Similarly, Nietzsche does away with the principle of self-preservation as the basic drive of all vital activity.
Ruediger Hermann Grimm, 1977
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Principles of International Law
That the state against which the action is directed has actually violated or threatened to violate a right of the state acting in self-preservation is not required. It is, however, hardly possible to prove the existence of such a right of self- preservation ...
Hans Kelsen, 1952
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The Origin, Structure & Working of the League of Nations
In such a society the supremacy of the right of self- preservation might be admitted in the abstract so long as it was tempered in practice by the belief that the interests of each dictated the peaceful co-operation of all. Quite an idyllic picture ...
Charles Howard Ellis, 1929
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Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political ...
In the first formulation of the precept Locke distinguishes the preservation of mankind and self-preservation and establishes an order amongst them: "Every one as he bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station wilfully; so by like  ...
John Hittinger, 2002
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Nuclear Weapons and Contemporary International Law
Basically the three concepts of military survival, self-preservation and self- defence are allied, but it is self-defence alone which can be accepted as an inherent right according to the general principles of jurisprudence. As the exercise of the ...
Nagendra Singh, Edward MacWhinney, 1989
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
1775 JLyon in Baxter Manuscripts 14.312: The sacred laws of self preservation . 1775 EMusgrove in Gibbes 2.202: The nature of humanity is such that self- preservation very much prevails. 1776 WHDrayton in Gibbes 2.281: Nature cried aloud ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-PRESERVATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-preservation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Xenophobia Or Self-Preservation? Kahnawake Mohawks Challenge …
It's been dubbed "marry out, get out" - a controversial law that strips members of the Canadian Kahnawake Mohawks of their tribal rights if they marry a ... «Vermont Public Radio, Jul 15»
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Self Preservation Saturdays
Self-Preservation Saturdays” is a summer-long series devoted to the well-being of our neighbors. Adults are invited to join us weekly for an hour of yoga, Tai Chi ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jun 15»
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Funniest Self-Preservation 'I'd Rather Not' Sports Moments
These moments of self-preservation are often hilarious, because it seems as if one ... These are the funniest “I'd rather not” self-preservation moments in sports. «Bleacher Report, Jun 15»
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FIFA corruption scandal: Yet more self-preservation from Sepp …
FIFA corruption scandal: Yet more self-preservation from Sepp Blatter - but his empire is ... It was a masterclass in the art of shameless self-preservation. Another ... «Mirror.co.uk, May 15»
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Qatar's money buys self-preservation
Qatar's money buys self-preservation. Nussaibah Younis. The Gulf state's latest foray into the London property market is about more than simple investment. «The Guardian, May 15»
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Baird balances self-preservation and principle
Mike Baird's decision to back the Independent Commission Against Corruption over the High Court is half a matter of damage control and half a matter of high ... «The Australian Financial Review, May 15»
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How fear and self-preservation are driving a cyber arms race
When a man was fired from his job in Minneapolis, Minn., last May, he inadvertently touched off a boom in Silicon Valley. Gregg Steinhafel, then a 35-year ... «CNET, May 15»
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Transitions: Self-preservation and the struggle for justice
Driven by self-preservation, he left for the United Arab Emirates in December 2013. After six months in self-imposed exile, the deceased attorney returned to ... «The Express Tribune, Mar 15»
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Fayose's Anti-Buhari Campaign, “Self-Preservation” Strategy – Ekiti …
cannot stop him from winning the presidential election. It said Fayose's criticism of Buhari was driven by self-preservation over the governor's past misdeeds and ... «Information Nigeria, Feb 15»
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Shout! Factory Launches A Streaming Service With A Keen Eye On …
Self-preservation, I think,” Foos said with a chuckle. “We've been trying to expand our digital business for several years, and doing it largely through acquiring ... «Decider, Feb 15»

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