English Dictionary

nonself

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(philosophy, psychology) Any entity other than oneself. / (immunology, uncountable) All agents and substances that are not the body's own.

日本語の意味

（哲学・心理学）自己ではないもの、すなわち自分自身以外の存在や対象 / （免疫学）身体に属さない全ての物質や要因

In Buddhist teachings, the concept of nonself challenges the idea of a permanent, unchanging identity.

仏教の教えでは、自己以外の存在という概念が、永続的で不変な自己という考えに疑問を投げかける。

意味（1）

(philosophy, psychology) Any entity other than oneself.

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

意味（2）

(immunology, uncountable) All agents and substances that are not the body's own.

In his classic monograph describing the clonal selection theory of the immune response, Burnet (1959) suggested that the immune system distinguishes between self (no antibody response) and nonself (antibody response).

nonselfs （ plural ）

nonselves （ plural ）