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Definition of: self
(self) adjective
1. Same; identical: obsolete except in the compound selfsame.
2. Pure; unmixed: applied especially to colors.
—noun plural selves
1. An individual known or considered as the subject of his own consciousness; anything considered as having a distinct personality.
2. Personal interest or advantage.
3. Any thing, class, or attribute that, abstractly considered, maintains a distinct and characteristic individuality or identity. [OE]
Self may appear as a combining form with various meanings in solidemes and hyphemes, as shown in the list beginning at the foot of this page.
1. Of the self (the object of the root word); as in:
| self-abandonment | self-abhorrence | self-administer | self-adornment | self-advertise | self-aggrandizement | self-applause |
| self-abasement | self-accusation | self-admiration | self-adulation | self-advertisement | self-analysis | self-appreciation |
| self-abasing | self-adaptive | self-admission | self-advancement | self-affliction | self-annihilation | self-approbation |
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