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self-sufficiency
noun as in ability to manage for oneself
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
But such an approach works against the traditional pride in self-sufficiency espoused by many in the American middle class.
Domestically, the former governor offers an avowedly nationalistic agenda, focused on American self-sufficiency.
Academic studies have found that mental health parenting evaluations often take this self-sufficiency view of parenting.
Food in Calabria was pride, self-sufficiency and community all mixed together in one mouthful.
I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency — that sort of thing.
David had replied, in that short tone of self-sufficiency which conveys so much more than the syllable would seem to warrant.
One does not hate a youngster seven years one's junior merely because he is a mass of inexperience and self-sufficiency.
Humble and modest in the presence of a master-mind, he stood up proudly and boldly against foolish arrogance and self-sufficiency.
Their ignorance, however, is not equal to their self-sufficiency.
You lack the quality of self-sufficiency that is the characteristic of the higher critical faculties.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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