▪ I. self-feeling, n.
[self n. and self- 1 d, 5 d. Cf. G. selbstgefühl.]
1. Used to render cœnæsthesis.
| 1835 J. Young Lect. Intell. Philos. ix. 81 Dr. Crichton gives an account of a sense called by some German writers Cœnesthesis or self-feeling. |
2. Feeling centred in oneself, egoistic feeling.
| 1879 H. Maudsley Path. Mind v. 241 This extreme development of..selfhood or self-feeling among the insane. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 653 Self-feeling, a germ of the feeling of ‘my worth’ enters into this early passionateness. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 194 There is often an exaggerated ‘self-feeling’ which may give rise to hypochondriasis, or to false ideas of self-importance. |
3. The sense of one's individual identity.
| 1908 G. A. Coe in Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 365 [In self-hypnosis] First, the bodily sensations were modified... Second, the self-feeling underwent an equally marked change. It seemed as if the self melted into its object. |
▪ II. † self-feeling, ppl. a. Obs.
[self- 1 f.]
Self-conscious.
| 1642 H. More Song of the Soul i. ii. xxv, Self-feeling Autæsthesia. |