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unself en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + self.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) That which is not the self.
   • Beckett's text for Neither is a fantasia on limbo, on the no-man's-land between self and unself, subject and object, where we are all forced to dwell: […] 2003, Daniel Albright, Beckett and Aesthetics, page 149:

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nonself

unself en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + self.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To deprive of, or detach from, the self.
   • The goal, said [Simone] Weil, — and the British writer Iris Murdoch after her — was to unself. The whole point, in their supposition, was to turn one’s attention toward the bigger questions. 2026 February 15, Lauren Jackson, “How to Pay Attention”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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