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noun
The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, literally, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: individualism
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: egocentricity, me-firstism, self-obsession, egoism, egomism, hoggery, interestedness, philauty, porkishness, selfhood, selfishness, self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-interestedness, self-servingness, solipsism, suicism
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
Masturbation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, euphemistic, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: egocentricity, me-firstism, self-obsession, egoism, egomism, hoggery, interestedness, philauty, porkishness, selfhood, selfishness, self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-interestedness, self-servingness, solipsism, suicism, onanism, self-pleasure, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pollution, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solitary vice, spanking the monkey, tossing off, wank
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
History
From Latin sōlus (“alone”) + ipse (“self”) + -ism.
Across languages
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
