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self-ref·er·en·tial

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  1. self-referentialadjective

    That or who refers to itself or oneself; used as a stylistic device when done in literary works.

  2. Etymology: self + referential

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-referential in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-referential in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of self-referential in a Sentence

  1. Brett Foster:

    There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.


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