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Selfly vs Selfy - What's the difference?

selfly | selfy |

As adjectives the difference between selfly and selfy

is that selfly is of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal while selfy is relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.

As an adverb selfly

is in, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.

As a noun selfy is

alternative form of selfie.

selfly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
  • * 2001 , Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology :
  • This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another [...]

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
  • * 1880 , Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester: for the first time ... :
  • Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light

    selfy

    English

    Etymology 1

    See selfie

    Noun

    (selfies)
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  • Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • (philosophy) Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
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