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selfy

selfy is the alternative form of selfie.

Meaning of selfie

Noun

selfie (plural selfies)

  1. (informal, social media) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
    • take a selfie

See all 2 meanings of selfie

Adjective

selfy

  1. Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
    • While a bat, like even the lowly lobster, has a biological self, it has no selfy self to speak of — no Center of Narrative Gravity1991, The New York Times Book Review, volume 96, page 60

Forms of selfy

pluralselfies

Origin of selfy

See selfie

From self + -y.

Questions about selfy

What does selfy mean?
Selfy means relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
What is selfy the alternative form of?
Selfy is the alternative form of selfie.
What part of speech is selfy?
Selfy is an adjective.

Words near selfy in the dictionary

  1. selfsustained
  2. selfubiquitination
  3. selfward
  4. selfwards
  5. selfwilledness
  6. selfy
  7. selfying
  8. SELH
  9. Selham
  10. Selhurst
  11. SELI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: selfy (page history and authors); selfie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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