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单词 self-description
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self-description

noun

self-de·​scrip·​tion ˌself-di-ˈskrip-shən How to pronounce self-description (audio)
plural self-descriptions
: the act or an instance of describing oneself
… earned a postwar degree from Harvard Law School, forever beggaring his self-description as "just a country lawyer." Kurt Andersen
… he is, by self-description, the son of Vietnamese refugees … Joyce Carol Oates
also : a self-descriptive statement
wrote a short self-description
Her self-description of "an outright gross cynic yet total Pollyanna" seems apt. Amanda Saxton

Word History

First Known Use

1804, in the meaning defined above

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