itself

CEFRA2

/ɪtˈsɛlf/

pronoun

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pronoun
Used to refer to a thing previously mentioned.
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pronoun
Extra detail
it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
it; used to refer back to an earlier subject

In context

When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
The door itself is quite heavy.
The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.

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The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
2014 December 2, David DiSalvo, “Are You Vulnerable to the Hipster Effect?”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025
Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
1933 March 4, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 0:00:55 from the start, in Inaugural Address
The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines

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From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.