Self

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  • noun. The total, essential, or particular being of a person; the individual.
  • noun. The essential qualities distinguishing one person from another; individuality.
  • noun. One's consciousness of one's own being or identity; the ego.
  • noun. One's own interests, welfare, or advantage.
  • noun. That which the immune system identifies as belonging to the body.
  • pronoun. Myself, yourself, himself, or herself.
  • adjective. Of the same character throughout.
  • adjective. Of the same material as the article with which it is used.
  • adjective. Same or identical.
  • intransitive verb. To fertilize or pollinate itself. Used of hermaphroditic organisms.
  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Personal interest and benefit; one's own private advantage.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Same; particular; very; identical.
  • adjective. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.
  • noun. Personification; embodiment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • pronoun. Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
  • pronoun. Myself.
  • noun. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness.
  • adjective. same
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person considered as a unique individual
  • noun. your consciousness of your own identity
  • adjective. (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self
  • Word Usage
    "If the temporary coalition of conscious states that is winning at the moment is what I am, is the self, each temporal chunk of ˜self™ is likely to be found in different parts of the brain from other such chunks and there will be many NCCs of unified consciousness in many different places."
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Himself  delph  elf  herself  himself  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    I  I myself  alter  alter ego  alterum  
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    selves