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
Understanding yourself is one of the keys to self-mastery; be open to new awareness.
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Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
Understanding yourself is one of the keys to self-mastery, open to new awareness.
—Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
Your Saturn sign serves as a roadmap to your self-mastery.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Just in time for the taskmaster planet (Capricorn’s celestial ruler) to stand on business, Saturn will station retrograde in Aries on July 13, challenging our sense of authority while testing our commitment to themes surrounding autonomy and self-mastery.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
The Ed Mylett Show Ed Mylett interviews leaders, athletes and innovators about peak performance, mindset and the art of self-mastery.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
These being an in-depth understanding of ADHD, self-acceptance, acceptance of disability, self-compassion, and skills and compensatory strategies that support self-mastery.
—New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2024
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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But restraint does not mean passivity.—
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The American Conservative was founded on foreign policy restraint, trade realism, and migration sanity in 2002.—
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“Self-mastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-mastery. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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