self
Meaning
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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).
Concepts
self
oneself
ego
own
person
same
identity
himself
itself
individual
herself
alone
personality
body
by oneself
ourselves
identical
nature
soul
I
one’s self
proper
myself
self-interest
one’s own self
independence
atman
auto
individuality
character
subjectivity
selfhood
not different
not other than
not adapted
just
only
is
magnetism
self-confidence
self same
nothing
separate
even
in person
in-person
reflexive
themselves
yourself
yourselves
selfish
face
first
image
ass
sen
selves
who
personal
private
voluntary
Frequency
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.
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