self-recognition
The English word “self-recognition” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.
- A recognition made chiefly by oneself; an understanding reached by one's own thought and reflection.
- The process by which the immune system distinguishes the body's own cells, DNA, etc. and those of a foreign, possibly pathogenic, agent.
Etymology
From self- + recognition.
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