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selfship

noun
/ˈsɛlf.ʃɪp/US/ˈsɛlfˌʃɪp/US

Etymology

From self + -ship. Compare Dutch zelfschap, Swedish självskap, Norwegian selvskap.

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

Definitions

  1. The state, essence, or quality of self

    The state, essence, or quality of self; identity; individuality.

    • [...] separate from God, or so long as God is only found in the heavens, and man is trying with the wrong key to unlock the sanctuary of this divine selfship.
    • Our selfship of the past must develop into citizenship. We must remember that each individual in the community is an asset to us — that no nation can be strong if its citizens are weak and diseased.
    • The time-honored way was to use self as though it were a little man-inside-the-man who ordered all activities so that they pretty well suited his imperial selfship.

  2. A situation where a person makes an OC (original character) or self-insert and ships them…

    A situation where a person makes an OC (original character) or self-insert and ships them with their favorite character, aka a F/O (fictional other).

    • the one year anniversary of my selfship with rayman is coming up tomorrow and I really wanted to get some art done, but I've been so exhausted and burnt out lately that I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it...

  3. To ship oneself with a fictional character.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for selfship. 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