Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonself

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-self
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any entity other than oneself.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

All agents and substances that are not the body's own.

Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

adj

Of nonself origin.

Example Sentences

"In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual."
"In his classic monograph describing the clonal selection theory of the immune response, Burnet (1959) suggested that the immune system distinguishes between self (no antibody response) and nonself (antibody response)."

Etymology

From non- + self.

Usage

Inflected Forms

nonselfs (plural) nonselves (plural)

Questions

What does nonself mean?: Any entity other than oneself.
Where does nonself come from?: From non- + self.

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