self-feeling

noun

Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.

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Meanings

nounself-feeling (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSelf-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.

    Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. uncountableSelf-centredness, egotism.

Origin

From self- + feeling.

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self-feeling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-feeling

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Chicago

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