Definition of "self-worth" [self-worth]

• Self-esteem; self-respect. (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.

• "I like the term self-worth best because I think it says something the other terms don’t."
• "He is going to see you as a woman who knows her own self-worth, which is very attractive to the opposite sex."
• "No doubt we both had problems in the area of what popular psychologists call self-worth."