0 the quality of not needing the friendship or support of other people:
He had an air of self-containment , bordering on contentment.
The caravan's romantic vision of self-containment, self-sufficiency and mobility was the lure for Deam.
Francis King's short stories are seamlessly crafted with a perfect self-containment and compactness.
she had always been taught to believe that self-containment was only selfishness.
Her self-containment could be uncomfortable and was always uncompromising.
Extensive redundancies are avoided without losing the necessary degree of self-containment of each of the chapters.
The result was less a false reading as a distorted projection, a form of inadvertent self-containment.
But others may find this coherent self-containment constrictive and prejudicial in the worst sense.
