Self

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The total, essential, or particular being of a person; the individual: "An actor's instrument is the self” ( Joan Juliet Buck).
  • n. The essential qualities distinguishing one person from another; individuality: "He would walk a little first along the southern walls, shed his European self, fully enter this world” ( Howard Kaplan).
  • n. One's consciousness of one's own being or identity; the ego: "For some of us, the self's natural doubts are given in mesmerizing amplification by way of critics' negative assessments of our writing” ( Joyce Carol Oates).
  • n. One's own interests, welfare, or advantage: thinking of self alone.
  • n. Immunology That which the immune system identifies as belonging to the body: tissues no longer recognized as self.
  • pronoun. Myself, yourself, himself, or herself: a living wage for self and family.
  • adj. Of the same character throughout.
  • adj. Of the same material as the article with which it is used: a dress with a self belt.
  • adj. Obsolete Same or identical.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • pronoun. Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
  • pronoun. Myself.
  • n. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness.
  • adj. same
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Same; particular; very; identical.
  • adj. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed.
  • n. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
  • n. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.
  • n. Personification; embodiment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same; identical; very same; very.
  • Own; personal.
  • Single; simple; plain; unmixed with any other: particularly noting colors: as, self-colored.
  • A pronominal element affixed to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction, or to denote a reflexive use.
  • n. A person in his relations to that very same person. Self differs from ego as being always relative to a particular individual, and as referring to that person in all his relations to himself and not merely as given in consciousness.
  • n. A thing or class of things, or an attribute or other abstraction, considered as precisely distinguished from all others: as, the separation of church and state is urged in the interest of religion's self.
  • n. Personal interest and benefit; one's own private advantage.
  • n. In horticulture, a flower with its natural plain color; a self-colored flower, as distinguished from one which has become “rectified” or variegated. Compare self-colored.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person considered as a unique individual
  • n. your consciousness of your own identity
  • adj. (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    selves   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    same    particular    very    identical    unmixed    selfishness    personification    embodiment    hoax   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Himself    delph    elf    herself    himself    hisself    itself    myself    oneself    ourself   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    personality    soul    being    reality    desire    truth    beauty    one    humanity    impulse