The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-enjoyment
Self-enjoyment \Self`-en*joy"ment\, n. Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.
Usage examples of "self-enjoyment".
Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment but self-denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws—and he will have cut himself in two.
He was aware of the quiescence of his resting body as a glow of self-enjoyment, but the desire to sleep had vanished.