Meanings
abbreviation SH · alternative selfharm · alternative self harm
- uncountablemental healthThe deliberate nonsuicidal injuring of one's own body.
It [OpenAI] said that its terms of use prohibited asking ChatGPT for advice about self-harm and highlighted a limitation of liability provision that states “you will not rely on output as a sole source of truth or factual information”.
2025 November 26, Robert Booth, “ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: self-injury, self-mutilation, self-harming, self-injury, self-mutilation, SI, SH, $H
present singular third person self-harms · participle present self-harming · participle past self-harmed · past self-harmed · alternative selfharm · alternative self harm
- intransitiveTo harm oneself deliberately.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe deliberate nonsuicidal injuring of one's own body.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swé?
- Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*selbaz
- Old Englishself
- Old Englishself-
- Middle Englishself-
- Englishself-
- Englishharm
- Englishself-harm
Translations
Bulgarian самонараняване
- самонараняване (samonaranjavane)deliberate injuring of oneself
French automutilation, scarification
- automutilationdeliberate injuring of oneself
- scarificationdeliberate injuring of oneself
- automutilerto injure oneself deliberately
German Selbstverletzung, Selbstverletzendes Verhalten
- Selbstverletzungdeliberate injuring of oneself
- Selbstverletzendes Verhaltendeliberate injuring of oneself
Hindi आत्मक्षति, आत्महिंसा
- आत्मक्षति (ātmakṣati)deliberate injuring of oneself
- आत्महिंसा (ātmahinsā)deliberate injuring of oneself
Italian autolesionismo, autolesionarsi
- autolesionismodeliberate injuring of oneself
- autolesionarsito injure oneself deliberately
Japanese 自傷, 自傷行為
- 自傷 (jishō)deliberate injuring of oneself
- 自傷行為 (jishō kōi)deliberate injuring of oneself
Norwegian Bokmål selvskading
- selvskadingdeliberate injuring of oneself
Polish samookaleczanie, samookaleczenie
- samookaleczaniedeliberate injuring of oneself
- samookaleczeniedeliberate injuring of oneself
Portuguese automutilação, automutilar
- automutilaçãodeliberate injuring of oneself
- automutilarto injure oneself deliberately
Romanian automutilare, automutila
- automutilaredeliberate injuring of oneself
- automutilato injure oneself deliberately
Russian самоповрежде́ние, селфха́рм
- самоповрежде́ние (samopovreždénije)deliberate injuring of oneself
- селфха́рм (selfxárm)deliberate injuring of oneself
Spanish autolesión, automutilación
- autolesióndeliberate injuring of oneself
- automutilacióndeliberate injuring of oneself
- autoagresióndeliberate injuring of oneself
- autoagresividaddeliberate injuring of oneself
- autolesionarseto injure oneself deliberately
- automutilarseto injure oneself deliberately
- autoagredirseto injure oneself deliberately
- cagar fuego en su propia manoto injure oneself deliberately
Swedish självskada
- självskadadeliberate injuring of oneself
Ukrainian селфхарм
- селфхарм (selfxárm)deliberate injuring of oneself
Cite this entry
self-harm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-harm
“self-harm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-harm. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-harm,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-harm.
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