Definition of "self-hatred" []

• Hatred, disregard, and denigration of oneself. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Call it fear, call it self-hatred, call it the deflation of the spirit—whatever we call it, these are the expressions of insecurity, of an absence of the inner peace that is an irreplaceable ingredient in the redemptive person."
• "In "O Youth and Beaty!" it's his self-hatred for the lesser man he's become."
• "What he offers us is his own subtle variations on it: a Richard in whom instinctive comic brio is matched by a power-lust born of intense self-hatred."