self-description

The word came into use as a self-description by the early 7th century, and probably earlier.

He gets to know her well enough to offer an accurate self-description.

Modern use can include self-description, often as an unfairly difficult person.

She laughed at her bold self-description, taking herself seriously only to a point.

Self-description I am kind, very accommodating, can adjust myself to any situation.

She believes in God and is religious by self-description.

Whether or not someone is “Roma” is ultimately a matter of self-description.

Write a short self-description: What are your main characteristics?

Self-description I was raised in an industrious and friendly family.

On the whole, I defer to people's self-description when it comes to religious belief.

The magazine has, according to its present self-description, a left-of-centre political position.

Soon, other media outlets began picking up on Palin's self-description.

Believe it or not, that's a name, not a self-description.

A polytomous item response analysis of the physical self-description questionnaire.

The report also remarked that a full 34% of Americans reported "some racist feelings" in general as a self-description.

Sign up here, they said, write a self-description, stick in a photo and send your first tweet – so I did.

After students reported falling in love, they used more varied words in their self-descriptions.

When it comes to self-description on the campaign trail, both have been prone to using superlatives.

There's always the risk of encountering a liar whose online self-description is far from the real person.

Self-description I cook well and bake very delicious things.

It is also an opportunity for wordplay and self-description.

Further, it might well mark a self-designating proper name rather than merely a self-description.

But there was something startling, and telling, about hearing his self-description — particularly in how offhandedly he used it.

One drawing was based on a woman's self-description; the second on a stranger's.

Mr. Abrams seems moved by his own self-description, almost as if he needed to convince himself.