SELF-GENERATED
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)
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)
Meaning:
Originating from the self
Synonyms:
self-produced; self-generated
Similar:
autogenic; autogenous (originating within the body)