self-love
5 antonyms for self-love — opposites grouped by meaning.
Noun — Regard for your own wellbeing and worth, shown in treating yourself with the same care, honesty and forgiveness you would give someone you love.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
Regard for your own wellbeing and worth, shown in treating yourself with the same care, honesty and forgiveness you would give someone you love.
“Learning to say no was the beginning of self-love for her.”
Opposites
2. noun formal, older use
Excessive concern with yourself; vanity or conceit.
“His memoirs are an exercise in undisguised self-love.”
Opposites
3. noun euphemistic
Masturbation.
“The chapter on self-love is the frankest in the book.”
Antonyms
How to use self-love
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
The positive sense now dominates and is standard in wellbeing writing; the older vanity sense survives mainly in literary and formal prose.
