self
Meanings
Noun
- your consciousness of your own identity
- a person considered as a unique individual
- "one's own self"
- 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.
- 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).
Adjective
- (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self
- "self-knowledge"
- "self-proclaimed"
- "self-induced"
Pron
- Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
- Myself.
Verb
- To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
- To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
Adj
- Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
- 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).
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
cyberself, ego, herself, himself, itself, myself, non-self, one's self, oneself, ourselves, technoself, themselves, thyself, yourself, yourselves
Scrabble Score: 7
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