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adjective | 1. Very self-centered or selfish.
2. Relating to the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. |
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| "The proposal to close off the park to nonresidents was rejected for being too solipsistic." | "I worried that my schedule was solipsistic, because I wouldn't see my family until the holidays, but I needed to work every weekend." | "The narrator of the sci-fi novel presented the solipsistic view that he was the only conscious being in the universe." |
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| German, late 19th century |
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| While the adjective "solipsistic" could be used in a very snooty way to call someone selfish, it's also related to a basic school of philosophy called "solipsism." ... | |
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