self-referential

Adjective

Meaning

That refers to itself or oneself.

(specifically) In a literary work: referring to the author or the author's other works.

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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal. Marianne Faithfull

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. John Cusack

Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking. Sean M. Carroll

According to Wild the Quran is highly self-referential. Source: Internet

All of them were actually shorthand mnemonics for I/O instructions on channel 63, the CPU's self-referential I/O channel. Source: Internet

At the same time, film producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli combined sex with exotic locations, casual violence and self-referential humour in the phenomenally successful James Bond series with Sean Connery in the leading role. Source: Internet

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