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See also: it self
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
Audio (US): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪtˈself/
- (Northumbria) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛl/
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
itself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, gender-neutral themself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
- 2014 December 2, David DiSalvo, “Are You Vulnerable to the Hipster Effect?”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- 1933 March 4, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 0:00:55 from the start, in Inaugural Address:
- So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- 2014 December 2, David DiSalvo, “Are You Vulnerable to the Hipster Effect?”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
Synonyms
- itsself (obsolete)
Derived terms
- a house divided against itself cannot stand
- being-for-itself
- being-in-itself
- dense-in-itself
- end in itself
- history repeats itself
- in and of itself
- in itself
- in-itselfness
- lend itself to
- of itself
- pay for itself
- repeat itself
- simplicity itself
- suggest itself
- the trash takes itself out
- thing-in-itself
- thing in itself
- unto itself
- write itself
Translations
(reflexive) it
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(emphatic) it
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