self-referential

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛlf ɹɛfəˈɹɛnʃl/    美 /ˈsɛlf ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛn(t)ʃəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. That refers to itself or oneself.
    — That is a very pleasant line, the one that we have italicized; […] Why did he [Ben Jonson] not write more such? He might answer that he did, and that his poetry was full of enjoyment. But it is not; at least not in the entirely happy, familiar, unmisgiving, self-referential, and yet not self-loving sense that we speak of.
  2. In a literary work: referring to the author or the author's other works. specifically
    — It [Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy] also has a design strictly self-referential. The author feigns, that the beatified spirit of his mistress has obtained leave to warn and purify his soul by shewing him the state of things in the next world.

词形变化

more self-referential comparative most self-referential superlative

词汇关系

下位词
autological meta
衍生词
Tupper's self-referential formula self-referentiality self-referentially self-referential meaning
相关词
self-reference

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English referential
English self-referential
From self- + referential.
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