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Self

/sɛlf/

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

📖 Definitions of "Self"

noun
  1. 1

    One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

    "one's true self; one's better self; one's former self"

  2. 2

    The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

  3. 3

    An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

  4. 4

    Self-interest or personal advantage.

verb
  1. 1

    To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.

  2. 2

    To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

adjective
  1. 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.

    "a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood"

  2. 2

    Same, identical.

  3. 3

    Belonging to oneself; own.

  4. 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).

pronoun
  1. 1

    Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

    "This argument was put forward by the defendant self."

  2. 2

    Myself.

    "I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat."

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