self

Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

This argument was put forward by the defendant self.

Now that I put on my glasses I could see that the hut was empty but for our two selves; that it must have been absolutely empty till we entered.

Myself, oneself.

I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks

John Locke argued that the mind is not like a furnished flat, prestocked before occupation with innate ideas, but like a home put together piecemeal from mental acquisitions picked up bit by bit. The self is thus the bit-by-bit product of experience and education: we are what we become - or, in Wordworth's later phrase, the child is the father of the man. Particular parents, surroundings and stimuli produce individuated selves. Identity is thus unique because contingent, the cumulative product of ceaseless occurrences.

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.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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.

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

Self-interest or personal advantage.

A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.

To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.