The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-reliance \Self`-re*li"ance\, n. Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence not to be dependent.
WordNet
n. personal independence [syn: autonomy, self-direction, self-sufficiency]
Wikipedia
Self-reliance may refer to:
- Self-reliance is an attribute of individualism
- Self-sufficiency in economics
- Self Reliance (political party), a political party in Ukraine
- Self-Reliance, an essay by transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self Reliance, an episode of Dawson's Creek, an American television series
Usage examples of "self-reliance".
Her defiant independence drew him to her as a man admires the fierce self-reliance of a wild and untamable creature.
In this respect even Lord Rowton's estimable lodging-houses, and those, too, of our municipal authorities prove no exception, for they attract numbers of men who ought not to be there, but who might, with just a little more self-reliance and self-respect, live comfortably outside.
Mliss with her clearness of material perception and self-reliance, Clytie with her placid -152- self-esteem and saint-like correctness of deport ment.
Rose Sayer had not lived to the age of thirty-three, had not spent ten years in the Central African forest, without acquiring a capable self-reliance to add to the simple faith of her religion.
After the encompassing, almost suffocating care of the first twenty-two years of her life, the solitude and self-reliance of the last six had been especially sweet.
And this strength, this independence, this self-reliance, was not just a trait in his character, it was not just inturned and effective only upon himself.