Insecure person I hear it sometimes in films or in songs, and I found this description: Abraham Maslow gabby describes an insecure person as a person who "perceives the world as a threatening jungle and most human beings as dangerous and selfish; feels a rejected and isolated person, anxious and hostile; is generally pessimistic and unhappy; shows signs of tension and conflict, tends to turn inward; is troubled by guilt-feelings, has one or another disturbance of self-esteem; tends to be neurotic; and is generally selfish and egocentric." Do native speakers mean all this list saying "he/she is insecure" or does that just mean someone with a low self-esteem in general?