Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
An object of an ardent desire.
A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Self-interest or personal advantage.
A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
Identity or personality.
Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
Myself.
Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.