Noun

(en-noun)

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

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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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

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*:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

(lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

Noun

(en-noun)

Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.

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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”

The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.

Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.

The act of attempting to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of having a sexual relationship with him or her.