self-knowledge

Knowledge or insight into one's own character, abilities, feelings, or motivations; self-understanding.

Noun

  1. Knowledge or insight into one's own character, abilities, feelings, or motivations; self-understanding.
    • A girl's love is half poetry, an unconscious preference till startled into self-knowledge. Isabella had been grateful for Mr. Glentworth's kindness—struck with his cultivated mind, and impressed with his distinguished...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English knowledge English self-knowledge From self- + knowledge.