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a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"

combining form; oneself or itself; "self-control"

a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"

combining form; oneself or itself; "self-control"

Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.

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.

Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

Personification; embodiment.

Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.

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.

Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

Personification; embodiment.

The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.

One's own person or character; personality; one's own private interest; as, a person who lives for self is unhappy.

Same or very: used in composition, as in selfsame.

One's own person: one's personal interest: selfishness: a flower or blossom of a uniform color, especially one without an edging or border distinct from the ground color:-pl. SELVES (selvz).

Self is the first element in innumerable compounds, generally of obvious meaning, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person on behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word, belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, and the like.

One's own person or interest; selfishness.

Same; particular; identical.

An individual considered as the subject of his own consciousness; a distinct personality.

Personal advantage or gain.

n. [Anglo Saxon, German, Gothic] The individual as an object to his own reflective consciousness; a person as a distinct individual;-hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.