solipsistic
- adjective
- /ˌsɒlɪpˈsɪstɪk/
- His solipsistic attitude makes it hard for him to understand other people's feelings.
- solipsistic self
Examples
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Your entitled life as the son of wealthy parents has created in you a solipsistic mind.
Blog text (4) -
Soyinka thus underlines the solipsistic character of the Western protagonist and hero.
Academic text (2008) -
The solipsistic "couple" is broken apart by this play within the play.
Academic text (1990) -
You're so solipsistic that you see yourself in everything.
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Where the Gothic hero had been solipsistic, the bachelor hero is selfish.
Academic text (1997) -
Orgon would turn the discursive community into a solipsistic closed circle.
Academic text (1990) -
Orgon's solipsistic projections have been exploded.
Academic text (1990) -
Yet the retreat to a private inner world led to estranging mirror games and the delusions of solipsistic consciousness.
Academic text (1990) -
Gabriel's solipsistic self-preoccupation and limited vision are repeatedly correlated through "The Dead" as we witness his several failures in communication.
Academic text (1991) -
Postmodernists display a solipsistic inwardness that forgets that true self-discovery entails the fullest confrontation with the eternal questions rooted in the very structure of the world.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Caring only about yourself and not about other people
A person who is only interested in their own needs and not in other people's feelings
A person who thinks only about their own needs and not about other people
Being only interested in your own needs and feelings
A person who only cares about themselves and thinks they are more important than other people
Caring only about your own needs and wants
A person who cares only about their own gain and ignores other people
Thinking only about yourself and not about other people
Antonyms
How Self-Centered
- Offensive
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember solipsistic is to see its parts solus ('alone') and ipse ('self'), like the word solo. That is why we also use solipsistic to describe someone who thinks only about their own needs and feelings.