SELF-POSSESSION Synonyms

• the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• steadiness of mind under stress

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

• a feeling of trust (in someone or something)

• a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable

• a trustful relationship

• a secret that is confided or entrusted to another

• steadiness of mind under stress

• a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second

• a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium

• great coolness and composure under strain

• be motionless, in suspension

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• cause to be balanced or suspended

• hold or carry in equilibrium

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

• government of a political unit by its own people

• exhibiting restraint imposed on the self

• the act of having and controlling property

• anything owned or possessed

• being controlled by passion or the supernatural

• a mania restricted to one thing or idea

• a territory that is controlled by a ruling state

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck)

• resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior