self-recognition

Meaning

1. noun The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.
2. noun A recognition made chiefly by oneself; an understanding reached by one's own thought and reflection.
3. noun The process by which the immune system distinguishes the body's own cells, DNA, etc. and those of a foreign, possibly pathogenic, agent.

Similar words

self-feeling self-awareness self-realization oikeiosis selfhood self-consciousness self self-image self-revelation autognosis

Word family

self-recognitions