SELF-GENERATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-generated mean? 

• SELF-GENERATED (adjective)
  The adjective SELF-GENERATED has 2 senses:

1. happening or arising without apparent external cause

2. originating from the self

  Familiarity information: SELF-GENERATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-GENERATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happening or arising without apparent external cause

Synonyms:

self-generated; spontaneous

Context example:

a spontaneous abortion

Similar:

impulsive; unprompted (proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus)

intuitive (spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency)

instinctive; natural (unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Originating from the self

Synonyms:

self-generated; self-produced

Similar:

autogenic; autogenous (originating within the body)

 Context examples 

The efference-copy dampens the brain's response to self-generated vocalisations, giving less mental resources to these sounds, because they are so predictable.

(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)