(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
(n.) Personification; embodiment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(3) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(4) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(6) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(7) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(8) Electron self-exchange has been measured by an NMR technique for horse-heart myoglobin.
(9) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(10) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(11) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(12) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(13) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(14) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
(15) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(16) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(17) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
(18) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(19) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(20) In a family with hereditary elliptocytosis and an abnormality in spectrin self-association, the membranes had decreased deformability and stability.
Selfsame
Definition:
(a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
Example Sentences:
(1) And of course this selfsame lack of clarity is one reason why broadcasters and politicians increasingly wheel and deal in a world where demarcation lines can be drawn in private, far from the three-ring circuses of transparency, openness and due diligence.
(2) HBsAg particles of a hybrid subtype, adyr, were sandwiched between monoclonal antibody against d and that against y, thereby indicating that they possessed both d and y determinants on the selfsame particle.
(3) As seen on ultra-thin sections of marker nucleolus organizer chromosomes, the densely packed regions may correspond to G-bands detected in the selfsame chromosomes by standard methods of differential staining.
(4) It is a sense of "selfsameness and continuity in time" and of embeddedness in the "environment" (Erikson 1959, 1968).
(5) I will describe some of the factors which seem to be essential for the sense of selfsameness, and examine the manner in which continuity is preserved during transitional phases.
(6) Skill in solving simple AR tasks is highly correlated with skill in solving simple perceptual Perspective-taking (PT) tasks; this suggests the hypothesis that the ability to represent the selfsame stimulus in two different, seemingly incompatible ways may underlie both skills.
(7) It also goes without saying that those selfsame banks would benefit from financing any the trade deals made with the Modi government of India.
(8) Perhaps you can replay that selfsame record today in the wake of Ukip advance from South Shields to deepest Surrey.
(9) Her portrayal might shine light on Matt Lucas's comedic talent, but her transformation into a signifier for a pretty hideous archetype - that selfsame Pram Face, supported in her fecklessness by a generous welfare state - speaks volumes about the people we now consider to be fair game.
(10) The presence of subtypic determinants on the selfsame particle was ascertained by sandwiching HBsAg between two monoclonal antibodies of distinct subtypic specificities.
(11) "But I think he's got to understand that when the public have seen the disgusting revelations that we've seen this week the idea that this organisation, which engaged in these terrible practices, should be allowed to get that 100% stake without the criminal investigation being completed and on the basis of assurances from that selfsame organisation, I'm afraid that won't wash with the public."
(12) When cells were transfected with the genomes of subtypes adw and adr simultaneously, however, subviral particles were produced that possessed w and r determinants on the selfsame particles.
(13) Nor is it the simple formula for bashing the tabloids that ordinary folk tell pollsters they endorse (before 19 million of them go out and read the selfsame slime sheets each morning).