self-feeling
nounEtymology From self- + feeling.
1
Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.
- Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Self-centredness, egotism.