as in restraint
the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
she had remarkable self-mastery for one so young
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Recent Examples of self-mastery
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Stepping into self-mastery?
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Usa Today, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
Life is for learning; self-mastery is a process.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Aquarius' 2026 career horoscope Commit to your self-mastery.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Understanding yourself is one of the keys to self-mastery, open to new awareness.
—Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
Those who mastered these high summits did so by first achieving self-mastery, reaching through prayer and meditation a higher realm of almost superhuman awareness and power.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
Usa Today, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
Life is for learning; self-mastery is a process.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Aquarius' 2026 career horoscope Commit to your self-mastery.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Understanding yourself is one of the keys to self-mastery, open to new awareness.
—Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
Those who mastered these high summits did so by first achieving self-mastery, reaching through prayer and meditation a higher realm of almost superhuman awareness and power.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-mastery
restraint
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Hegseth came out of his own service, in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the seeming conviction that what had stood in the way of a fuller victory in those wars had been the restraints supposedly placed on how soldiers could kill.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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In a culture that rewards fast takes, that kind of restraint is rare.—
Sonia Singh,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Self-mastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-mastery. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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