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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Origin and Etymology of autonoesis
1auto- + noesis (after autonoetic)
First Known Use: 1985
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