Meanings
comparative more selflike · superlative most selflike
- Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.
2007, William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos1 more example
But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]
2005, Thomas Seifrid, The word made self - Selfish; self-centered.
The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.
2007, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible1 more example
Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]
2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of NatureSynonyms: egocentric, self-absorbed, solipsistic, egocentric, egoistical, every man for himself, idiocentric, individualistic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSelfish; self-centered.
Origin
From self + -like. Compare selfly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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