Self-esteem is how much you value and believe in yourself. Low self-esteem, boost self-esteem, damage her self-esteem.
The programmes that tried to raise it in schools mostly failed, and the finding that survives is that it follows achievement rather than causing it — praise without grounds does not stick. Low self-esteem is a real and treatable part of several conditions.
1nounself-esteemHow much you value and believe in yourself.
“Being bullied at school left him with very low self-esteem.”
self-esteem is a self-regard.
Also accepted in games: self-confidence
Middle English
self
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English, today
self-esteem
From self- + esteem. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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