self-preservation
/ˌsɛlfˌpɹɛzɜˈɹ.veɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.99 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I'm gonna love me, for the rest of my days / Encourage the babies every time they say / Self-preservation is what's really going on today"
- "I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick."
- "Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English preservation English self-preservation From self- + preservation.