unself

English

Etymology

un- + self

Noun

unself (countable and uncountable, plural unselves)

  1. That which is not the self.
    • 2003, Daniel Albright, Beckett and Aesthetics, page 149:
      Beckett's text for Neither is a fantasia on limbo, on the no-man's-land between self and unself, subject and object, where we are all forced to dwell: []

Synonyms

Verb

unself (third-person singular simple present unselfs, present participle unselfing, simple past and past participle unselfed)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of, or detach from, the self.
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