Self-referential Definition

sĕlfrĕfə-rĕnshəl
adjective
Making reference to itself or oneself.
Webster's New World
Of, being, or related to a work of literature or art which exhibits the author's or artist's self-conscious awareness of the creative process, of the techniques he or she is using, etc.
Webster's New World
That or who refers to itself or oneself; used as a stylistic device when done in literary works.
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Self-referential Sentence Examples

  • Circulus are completely self referential -- I don't think madrigals and dressing that way comes naturally for anyone.

  • Repeated ad nauseam, however, the whole thing becomes hackneyed, stagnant and, dare I say it, dangerously self-referential.

  • Fantasy is hot; it is also a fast-breeder and increasingly self-referential.

  • For example, this sentence is self-referential because it asserts its self-referential nature.

  • But laughing at hope and change and progress along with all of this makes the world a very stagnant, self-referential place.

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