self-feeling

English

Etymology

self- +‎ feeling

Noun

self-feeling (uncountable)

  1. Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
      Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.
  2. Self-centredness, egotism.
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