self-feeling

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ feeling.

Noun

self-feeling (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. Self-centredness, egotism.