self-feeling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.
- Self-centredness, egotism.