self

Meaning

Noun

1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
2. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
3. An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
5. Identity or personality.
6. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
7. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
8. 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).

Pron

1. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
2. Myself.

Verb

1. To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
2. To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.

Adj

1. Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
2. (obsolete) Same, identical.
3. (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
4. Of or relating to 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

oneself

ego

own

person

🧑‍🦱

identity

same

himself

individual

itself

herself

alone

by oneself

body

personality

identical

ourselves

I

myself

nature

proper

self-interest

soul

one’s self

just

magnetism

in-person

ass

🍑

nothing

face

only

even

character

auto

personal

private

not adapted

reflexive

atman

self-confidence

selfhood

not different

selfish

self same

selves

sen

separate

not other than

subjectivity

themselves

voluntary

who

yourself

yourselves

one’s own self

independence

image

individuality

in person

is

first

1st

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛlf/

Etymology

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.