self
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/sɛlf/
English
Definitions
noun
- One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.“one's true self; one's better self; one's former self”
- The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
- An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- Self-interest or personal advantage.
verb
- To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
- To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
adjective
- Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.“a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood”
- Same, identical.
- Belonging to oneself; own.
- 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).
pronoun
- Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).“This argument was put forward by the defendant self.”
- Myself.“I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.”
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Synonyms
egosameself-realizationself-assessmentself-examinationsoul-searchingself-worthself-esteemself-respectself-careself-helpvoluntaryself-improvementself-regulationpersonalautonomous