solipsistic
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- adjective
- /ˌsɒlɪpˈsɪstɪk/
- Specialized
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solipsista
- His solipsistic view led him to believe that nothing outside his own thoughts truly mattered.
Only I exist this solipsistic point of view again.
- Only I exist this solipsistic point of view again.
Examples
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All you will have is your solipsistic interpretations of what you think are facts.
Blog text (9) -
All the same, it somewhat dashes quasi-mystical responses to nature to conceive it to any extent as a solipsistic, or at least merely human, creation.
Academic text (1997) -
The feeling that she is a solipsistic poet lingers.
Academic text (2013) -
At one level, her insistence on remaining may simply be another indication of her solipsistic innocence.
Fiction book (1994) -
Performance's failure to achieve presence, however, expresses the deeply solipsistic impulse that Dickerman has identified as a key.
Academic text (2014) -
He also wrote about himself with what looked like unsparing, if solipsistic, openness.
Academic text (2011) -
With the onset of Reaganism and what was happening in the country at that time, in some ways, I think that drew Frank out of the more solipsistic darkness of what was happening in his career.
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On this withered view of humanity, no one can ever really love anyone else or love or revere anything beyond the "dear self" shriveled by solipsistic isolation and preoccupation.
Academic text (1995) -
Faced with a narration that reveals simultaneously solipsistic self-enclosure and a need for otherness, one is tempted to draw on existential analysis.
Academic text (1995) -
In her solipsistic world, she often forgot that others had different feelings and perspectives.
Antonyms
How Self-Centered
- Offensive
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- Specialized
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- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
solipsistic = solipsism (opaque) = solips + istic
The philosophical concept of solipsism is not transparently derived from its components.
Etymology
Solipsistic comes from the Latin parts solus ('alone') and ipse ('self'), so it literally means 'only the self'. In philosophy, a solipsistic person believes only their own mind or experience is sure to exist.