Self-worth is the sense that you matter regardless of what you achieve. Build self-worth, low self-worth.
It is different from confidence, which is about ability rather than value. Self-worth tied to achievement collapses the moment the achieving stops.
1nounself-worthThe sense that you matter regardless of what you achieve.
“His whole self-worth was tied to a job that ended without warning.”
self-worth is a feeling.
Middle English
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English, today
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From self- + worth. 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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