self
Significado (English)
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- One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
- The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
- An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- Self-interest or personal advantage.
- Identity or personality.
- A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
- A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
- Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
Synonyms
one’s self
in-person
not adapted
not different
self same
not other than
one’s own self
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/sɛlf/
Etimología (English)
In summary
From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba), German selbst and Dutch zelf.
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