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self-reference

noun

Etymology

From self- + reference.

  1. derived from referentia
  2. borrowed from référence
  3. prefixed as self-reference — “self + reference”

Definitions

  1. An act or process of referring to itself or oneself.

    • Ethologists concerned with the evolution of human behaviour have stopped short of attempting to explain the further reaches of the human mind; consciousness, self-reference, the construction of identity, and intersubjective relating.

  2. To reference itself or oneself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-reference. 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