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SELF-GENERATED

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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-generated mean?

• SELF-GENERATED (adjective)
The adjective SELF-GENERATED has 2 senses:

1. happening or arising without apparent external cause
2. originating from the self

Familiarity information: SELF-GENERATED used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SELF-GENERATED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Happening or arising without apparent external cause

Synonyms:

self-generated; spontaneous

Context examples:

spontaneous laughter / spontaneous combustion / a spontaneous abortion

Similar:

impulsive; unprompted (proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus)

intuitive (spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency)

instinctive; natural (unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Originating from the self

Synonyms:

self-produced; self-generated

Similar:

autogenic; autogenous (originating within the body)

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