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antiself

adj

Etymology

From anti- + self.

  1. inherited from *selbʰ-✻ — “one's own”
  2. inherited from *selbaz✻
  3. inherited from self
  4. inherited from salve
  5. prefixed as antiself — “anti + self”

Definitions

  1. Acting against the organism in which it occurs.

  2. An entity opposing or reflecting a self.

    • There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
    • The Western movies, of course, are not cultural visions, but the vicious encounters with the antiselves of civilization, the invented savage.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antiself. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA