self-recognition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.
  2. A recognition made chiefly by oneself; an understanding reached by one's own thought and reflection.
  3. The process by which the immune system distinguishes the body's own cells, DNA, etc. and those of a foreign, possibly pathogenic, agent.

Word forms

self-recognition

Etymology

From self- + recognition.

Synonyms

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