self-feeling
English
Etymology
self- + feeling
Noun
self-feeling (uncountable)
- Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- Self-centredness, egotism.