au·to·no·e·sis
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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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“Autonoesis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autonoesis. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.
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