selves

Noun

self (plural selves or selfs)

1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
   • She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks
2. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
   • Portia:
     To these injunctions every one doth swear
     That comes to hazard for my worthless self.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
   • The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.a. 1857, William Hamilton, “Lecture IX”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London...
4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
5. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
6. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.

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