Sentence examples for selfness from inspiring English sources
The word 'selfness' is not correct and usable in written English
Although it is not an officially recognized and accepted word, it could be used as a less formal term to describe a sense of self-identity or self-awareness. For example, you could use the sentence, "I found a new sense of selfness after completing my degree."
noun
The state, quality, or condition of self.
Both therefore need careful handling: too much selfness and we cut ourselves off from the world, too little and we drown in a sea of others.
Trailing debris through the house, dressing like Alfred Molina in the "Sister Christian" scene of Boogie Nights and YOLO'ing heart disease into your mouth doesn't take long to feel less like an assertion of unfettered selfness and more like a game to fill an empty house with noise.
Paula rambled on about "energy" and "selfness" until Simon cut her off and told Alison that she was "fantastic".
This One alone confers selfness to all other entities because, as the generator and principle of everything that follows it, it is in need of nothing.
He insists that we must allow our spontaneous "selfness" (what he terms ipseity here and in Being and Nothingness) to replace the "Me" or Ego, which he criticizes as an "abusive intermediary" whose future prefigures my future.
In the case of immune identity, the temporal seesaw of autoimmunity and tolerance preclude static functional borders; substances breathed or eaten from the environment are ignored; pregnancy as a archtypical chimera defies easy parameters of individualization (A. Martin 2007); the fallibility of anatomic and even genetic criteria of selfness are well known.
As observers, immunologists attribute identity (and thereby designate selfness) to that which is ignored – an apparent lacuna (or silence) of an on-going active, dynamic process.
On this broadened view, autoimmunity becomes a normal, integrated active process, and selfness entails a spectrum of immune activity that ranges from the absence of immune recognition to various degrees of concinnous immunity (Schwartz and Cohen 2000; Horn et al. 2001; Coutinho 2005).
