self-image
noun
the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
self-images
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pluralof self-image.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Over time, aspects of the myth began seeping into the psyches and self-images of Jews themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
As Williams writes in Commute, “shame is an instrument of oppression”, and across comics, female artists are confronting their mottled self-images through the act of drawing their bodies, traumas and desires.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2019
Those self-images are not consistent with shutting up for your own good just because some lawyer tells you to.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018
The mismatch between our selves and our self-images takes charged shape in three masks by Richard Hawkins and Elijah Burgher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
I supported appropriate patient self-images with as many concrete "hard to denies" as possible.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
