SINCE 1828
autonoesis
noun
au·to·no·e·sis
| \ ˌȯ-tə-nə-ˈwē-səs
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Definition of autonoesis
psychology
: awareness of one’s own existence as an entity in time : autonoetic consciousness
Autonoesis refers to the kind of conscious awareness that characterizes conscious recollection of personal happenings. — Endel Tulving, in The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness, 2005
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