self-reference

An act or process of referring to itself or oneself.

Noun

  1. An act or process of referring to itself or oneself.
    • Ethologists concerned with the evolution of human behaviour have stopped short of attempting to explain the further reaches of the human mind; consciousness, self-reference, the construction of identity, and...

    Synonyms: autoreference

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 reference English self-reference From self- + reference.

Forms

self-references

Derived

self-reference effect self-referential

Verb

  1. To reference itself or oneself.

Forms

self-references self-referencing self-referenced