self-discipline

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ discipline.

Noun

self-discipline (uncountable)

1. Control of oneself.

   Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-mastery, self-regulation

   Antonym: undisciplinedness

   Hyponym: self-restraint

   Coordinate terms: self-awareness, self-criticism

   Near-synonym: willpower

   • 2022 January 1, Oliver Burkeman, “New year, same old you! The secret to self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.

Translations

control of oneself

• Belarusian: самадысцыплі́на f (samadyscyplína)
• Catalan: autodisciplina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 律己 (lǜjǐ), 自制 (zh) (zìzhì)

• Finnish: itsekuri (fi)
• French: autodiscipline (fr) f
• Galician: autodisciplina f
• German: Selbstdisziplin (de) f
• Greek: αυτοπειθαρχία (el) f (aftopeitharchía)
• Hungarian: önfegyelem (hu)
• Irish: féin-araíonacht f
• Italian: autodisciplina f
• Japanese: 克己 (ja) (kokki)
• Latvian: pašdisciplīna f
• Polish: samodyscyplina f
• Portuguese: autodisciplina (pt)
• Russian: самодисципли́на (ru) f (samodisciplína)
• Spanish: autodisciplina (es) f
• Swedish: självdisciplin (sv) c
• Ukrainian: самодисциплі́на (samodyscyplína)

See also

• self-doubt
• self-pity