Usually means: Refers to itself within itself.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word self-referential:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-referential: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-referential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-referential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-referential, self-referential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Self-Referential, self-referential: Wordnik
  6. self-referential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-referential: Wiktionary
  8. self-referential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. self-referential: Dictionary.com
  10. Self-referential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. self-referential: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-referential: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-referential: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (self-referential)

adjective:  That refers to itself or oneself.
adjective:  (specifically) In a literary work: referring to the author or the author's other works.

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