0 the characteristic of being calm and in control of your emotions at all times:
1 the quality of being calm and in control of your emotions:
She shows remarkable self-possession for a child.
Maintaining this extremely tenuous position, they intervened in cultural debates about the relationship between land management and self-possession.
And if fastness refers to self-possession, looseness must refer to the ability to give up that ownership - in terms of political economy to alienate oneself.
He had recovered his self-possession in an instant.
But my self-possession can coexist with your selfpossession without allowing scope for unwanted bodily incursions based on reasonable apprehensions of consent, because self-possession requires no external action.
I cannot imagine how they all get so much self-possession.
Above all, she showed us her enormous courage, her self-possession and her dignity.
I admired their self-possession and their flow of oratory.
There remains the danger that workers will lose their self-possession.
