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The mental price tag you slap on someone, yourself included.

means The respect or favorable opinion you hold for a person or thing based on their perceived worth.

from From Latin aestimare, to appraise or valueliterally to put a number on something, the way you'd assess coins or cattle before commerce.

Estimate cousinSame root; one weighs feelings, one weighs facts.
Self-attachedSelf-esteem coined in the 1650s, long predating therapy.
Quiet rootAes also gives us aim and esteem's silent ambition.
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