Dictionary

selflike en · ADJ

Etymology

From self + -like. Compare selfly.

Meanings

1. Exactly similar; corresponding.
2. Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
   • The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature. 2007, William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos:
   • 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 [...] 2005, Thomas Seifrid, The word made self:
3. Selfish; self-centered.
   • The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process. 2007, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible:
   • 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, [...] 2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature:

Forms

Deriveds

unselflike

Synonyms

every man for himself · self-absorbed · idiocentric · solipsistic · self-absorbed · egoistical · self-minded · selflike · selfish · self-interested · interested · egocentric · egocentric · selfsome · solipsistic · reptilian · self-seeking · individualistic · self-centered · self-serving · porkish