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nonself

nonself \non"self`\, n.

  1. That which is not oneself.

  2. (Immunology) Any material that enters the body and is not recognized by the immune system as being part of its body, thereby triggering an immune response; any material appearing to the immune system to be foreign to its body.

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nonself

n. (context philosophy psychology English) Any entity other than oneself.

Usage examples of "nonself".

Like something that the histocompatibility complex had determined was nonself, different.

His task is to rid himse of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come.

So, the Buddha said there isn't any atman: he taught the doctrine of anatman, or nonself.