Selfsecure

Alternative forms

• self-secure

Origin

From - + secure, probably a calque of German selbstsicher ("selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident"). Compare also Dutch zelfzeker, zelfverzekerd ("selfsecure, confident").

Full definition of selfsecure

Adjective

1. Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
• 1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values:Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.
2. Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
• 2008, Touré F. Reed, Not Alms But Opportunity:Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.