sophrosynen.
/səʊˈfrɒzɪniː/ Soundness of mind, moderation, prudence, self-control.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [noun]
repressiona1413
governailc1425
willc1480
self-rule1532
coldness1548
stay1556
presentness of mind1598
coolness1607
cold blooda1609
temper1611
self-discipline1612
retention?1615
presence of mind?1624
self-governance1630
retentiveness1641
self-command1651
self-mastery1652
self-control1653
self-direction1653
self-restraint1656
self-possession1665
possessednessa1698
self-regulation1698
possession1703
retenue1747
sang-froid1750
self-collection1761
render1768
self-collectedness1805
self-repression1821
self-containedness1835
unimpulsiveness1860
cool-headedness1881
sophrosyne1889
cool1964
1889 Cent. Dict. Sophrosyne.
1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being 89 I am that star most dreaded by the wise, For they are drawn against their will to me, Yet read in my procession through the skies The doom of orthodox sophrosyne [1945 U.K. ed. suphrosyne].
1947 Mind 56 363 Lord Russell gives us to understand that he has no use for sophrosyne.
a1963 C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 3 Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions.
1970 J. Gardner Wreckage of Agathon 153 Even when his ideas were crazy, the man had sophrosyne, as they used to call it in the old days.
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