Selflike
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Selflike is an adjective meaning Exactly similar; corresponding.
Meaning
Exactly similar; corresponding.
More Meanings
- Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
- Selfish; self-centered.
Example Sentences
The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.
The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.
Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]
But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]
Synonyms for selflike
Depending on context, synonyms include egocentric, self-absorbed, solipsistic, egoistical, idiocentric, individualistic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lich, corresponsive, similar, alike, identical, selfsame.
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