self-sufficient

[self-suh-fish-uhnt, self-]

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adjective

able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.

having extreme confidence in one's own resources, powers, etc.: He was self-sufficient, and always reminded you of it.

Also, self-suf·fic·ing

[self-suh-fahy-sing] .

Origin:
1580–90

Related forms

self-suf·fi·cien·cy, noun

self-suf·fi·cient·ly, adverb

un·self-suf·fi·cien·cy, noun

un·self-suf·fi·cient, adjective

un·self-suf·fi·cient·ly, adverb

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self-sufficient or self-sufficing

—*adj*
	able to provide for or support oneself without the help of others

self-sufficing or self-sufficing

—*adj*

self-suf'ficiency or self-sufficing

—n

self-suf'ficiently or self-sufficing

—*adv*

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"The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where he, the hero, leaves off. He must release the spectator's potentiality, for potentiality is the historic force behind nobility. And to do this the hero must be typical of the characters and class who at that time only need to be made aware of their heroic potentiality in order to be able to make their society juster and nobler. Bourgeois culture is no longer capable of producing heroes. On the highbrow level it only produces characters who are embodied consolations for defeat, and on the lowbrow level it produces idols—stars, TV "personalities," pin-ups. The function of the idol is the exact opposite to that of the hero. The idol is self-sufficient; the hero never is. The idol is so superficially desirable, spectacular, witty, happy that he or she merely supplies a context for fantasy and therefore, instead of inspiring, lulls. The idol is based on the appearance of perfection; but never on the striving towards it."

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