self-enclosed

1. 1.

   of self-imposed enclosure or confinement

   “a self-enclosed Jewish cosmos”

   Similarenclosed

Questions about self-enclosed

What does self-enclosed mean?

self-enclosed means "of self-imposed enclosure or confinement".

How many syllables are in self-enclosed?

self-enclosed has 3 syllables and divides as sel-f-en-closed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is self-enclosed a common word?

self-enclosed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.