Someone vs Oneself - What's the difference?
someone | oneself |
A partially specified but unnamed person.
The person, previously mentioned.
A person's self - a general form of himself, herself or yourself
As pronouns the difference between someone and oneself
is that someone is some person while oneself is the person, previously mentioned.As a noun someone
is a partially specified but unnamed person.someone
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Usage notes
* Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation. *: Did anyone help with the clean-up effort? *: Yes, someone''' helped yesterday, but '''no one''' did today because '''everyone was too busy.Synonyms
* anybody, anyone, somebodyAbbreviations
Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or so for someone.Noun
(en noun)- Do you need a gift for that special someone ?
- The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.
oneself
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Pronoun
- One can teach oneself to do this.
- Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.