self-knowingn.
/ˌsɛlfˈnəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈnoʊɪŋ/ Knowledge or awareness of the nature of one's own character, abilities, weaknesses, etc. Cf. self-knowledge n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > self-knowledge > [noun]
innerwit1495
self-knowledge1537
self-feeling1590
self-knowing1628
autology1633
self-perception1666
self-recognition1777
self-awareness1876
autognosis1888
self-orientation1895
1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 10 Who neither feare of heauens, nor earths iust Law Can, into compasse of selfe knowing, draw?
1677 F. Bampfield All in One 152 If Christ be in thee, yet without this self-knowing, self-examining, self-proving, thou wilt not have so clear an evidence of this.
1700 J. Sergeant Transnatural Philos. 394 Each of those Single and Intrinsecal Natures or Notions of Self-Knowing and of Self-Loving.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 273 Whether abstracted from us there exists any thing higher and beyond this primary self-knowing.
1873 D. H. Hamilton Autology iii. iii. i. 460 Self-knowing..or self-consciousness, must be the ultimate ground and standard of all reality.
1965 A. J. Heschel Who is Man? i. 5 To know himself he must first question himself, and that means questioning his self-knowing.
2013 C. R. Ledesma in M. Glembocki et al. Advancing Professional Nursing Pract. ii. xi. 203 A relationship with self allows a deeper level of self-knowing resulting in a better understanding of how to balance one's personal values and beliefs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
self-knowingadj.
/ˌsɛlfˈnəʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈnoʊɪŋ/ 1. Having self-knowledge; possessing awareness of the nature of one's own character, abilities, weaknesses, etc. Also: characterized by the possession of self-knowledge. Cf. self-known adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > self-knowledge > [adjective]
self-known1596
self-knowing1601
autologicala1748
1601 R. Verstegan Odes 102 In darcknes of self-knowing state..Wee enter in at this worldes cumbrous gate.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 510 And upright with Front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing . View more context for this quotation
1745 J. Mason Treat. Self-knowl. ii. v. 168 A self-knowing Man can easily distinguish between these two.
1828 New Monthly Mag. 22 360 The ancients were much more modest and self-knowing than we are, in this particular of reading.
1890 W. T. Harris Hegel's Logic ii. 23 That this is meant for a personal Reason, we may know from the fact that Aristotle calls it self-knowing Reason.
1959 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. (Bk. Review) 20/2 Her own letters and journals reveal someone much shrewder, more self-knowing, and humbler than a child would have been.
2012 J. Roiland in S. Cohen & L. Konstantinou Legacy D. F. Wallace 36 His short stories and novels..exhibit a fractured style and an arch, self-knowing tone.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > possessing intuition
vaticinant1647
intuitive1652
self-knowing1828
intuent1865
intuitional1877
sixth-sensed1976
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Self-knowing, knowing of itself, or without communication from another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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