self
One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
Example
“She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks”
Other meanings
The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "self".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “self” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.