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quantified self

quantified self noun: a movement to promote the constant tracking of one's physical activity, diet, and other personal metrics in order to gain insights for self-improvement; the practice itself.

Noun

the quantified self (uncountable)

  1. A movement to promote the constant tracking of one's physical activity, diet, and other personal metrics in order to gain insights for self-improvement; the practice itself.
    • The quantified self movement—the idea that tracking metrics about yourself can lead to self-improvement—appears to be gathering steam.2013 March 27, Chris Hollindale, “Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 10 May 2022
    • “We wanted to make a mainstream product for people who are not that into sports or the quantified self,” he says.2013 September 19, Stuart Dredge, quoting Sampo Karjalainen, “After 2.5m iPhone downloads, activity-tracking app Moves comes to Android”, in The Guardian
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Examples of quantified self in a sentence

  • The quantified self, then, is more than a practice of self-monitoring; it suggests a shift to sharing such information for collectivized profiles of groups that serve as authorities on themselves.2014, Anna Poletti, Julie Rak, editors, Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online, University of Wisconsin Pres, →ISBN, page 88:
  • As Nafus (2016) points out, at the heart of the quantified self is an understanding of the individual as being ultimately responsible for taking control of their lives.2020, Phil Jones, Bodies, Technologies and Methods, Routledge, →ISBN:

Synonyms of quantified self

Origin of quantified self

Popularized by Wired editors Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in 2007.

Questions about quantified self

What does quantified self mean?
Quantified self means a movement to promote the constant tracking of one's physical activity, diet, and other personal metrics in order to gain insights for self-improvement; the practice itself.
How do you use quantified self in a sentence?
The quantified self, then, is more than a practice of self-monitoring; it suggests a shift to sharing such information for collectivized profiles of groups that serve as authorities on themselves.
What part of speech is quantified self?
Quantified self is a noun.

Words near quantified self in the dictionary

  1. quantificational logic
  2. quantificationally
  3. quantifications
  4. quantificative
  5. quantified
  6. quantified self
  7. quantifier
  8. quantifiers
  9. quantifies
  10. quantify
  11. quantifying

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