selflike

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selflike

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From self + -like. Compare selfly.

adjective more selflike · most selflike

Exactly similar; corresponding.
Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own. 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 [...]
Selfish; self-centered. 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, [...]
Similar: egocentric, self-absorbed, solipsistic, egoistical, every man for himself, idiocentric, individualistic, interested, porkish, reptilian, selfish, selflike

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@misc{selflike_2026,
  title = {selflike},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/selflike},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}